Shelby Volunteer, Volume 20, Number 4, Shelbville, Shelby County, 1 October 1863 — Page 1

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ME SHELBY VOLUNTEER tt published erery Thnrsd-iy morning- at Shklbttilu, Shelby Coanty, Indiana, by RE U BEX SPICE It. TERMS: 01.50 .1 Yll.lll,

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37 The following letter from aquion soldier we find in UV HathviM faclsonian. Of iti genuineness there can be no qnestion, as Mr. Purcell is well known in Iiash county and by many citizens of Shelby. The letter breaths the true spir? it of patriotic devotion to the old Union and the Constitution which the mouthing abolition demagogues, under the hlimsv veil of "lovaltv "nuri-ii.ririm "

and the stolen name of "nnion" are en deavoring to destroy: Letter From a Soldier. ') Fort Pillqtv, Tenn., Sept. 7.'63. Editor Jacksonian : I introduce myself to you as a soldier in the Union army, who enlisted to help put down the rebellion and restore the Union. " I am a Democrat and love Democratic institutions, and it was' to . pefpet'nate the "tim-h6hor-ed and glorious Democratic principles as enunciated in tbc Declaration of Independence by the father of Democracy a nomas uenerson tnat i took up arms to put down those who sought to subvert them. Having seen a copy of your paper, and admiring the manner in which you are contending against usurpation and anti-Democratic fanaticism. 1 have taken the liberty thus to introduce myself, and have a little Democratic "chat" with the Union Democracy of old Rush. I see by the abolition sheet of your place, mat the wiiole Democracy of the North are charged with being secessionists and rebel sympathizers, and in derision are called "Copperheads." From 'those black sheets one would conclude that there was no more a National Democratic party, but that all parties had been swallowed up by the Chicago platform, and all who do not stand on that illustrious document and swear by its beautiful and "loyal" principles are "Butternuts" and "Seccsh." Now we I mean the Democrats in the army understand all this. It is intended for the soldier's ear ! But let me tell you that the gauze is too thin it can be easily seen through Democrats in the army cannot be caught bj such chaff. 1 do not know of any man in the 52d regiment, who was a Democrat when he enlisted who is not one yet, but I do know' sonic .. Republicans who have become disguwted with Abolitionism and are now good staunch Democrats true blue Union Democrats of ihe Vallandigham stripe. Jt is true there have been some, changes in the upper ranks. some who were once Democrats have put on the "wool, but these are dudases; they don't exactly "carry the bag" but; some have been and others expect to be replenished from it very liberally. Fil-i thy lucre has, indeed, caused some in' high positon to sacrifice Democratic principles, but the common soldiery are sound to the core, and when the war is over and we return home, you will hear something "drop" heavy into the ballotbox it will be the Democratic votes of soldiers. Every Democrat in this regiment wants to ee Vallandigham elected, because he tands by the tdd Uuion and Constiturii a ion. lhey believe uim to boa true riend to the countrv. Of course, as a oldier, 1 dare not discuss the policy of the Administration, though, I tell you, do some tallMin-ft'inr. 1 profess to un?rstand something ot the genius of our Government and its free institutions, and think, I can discern the difference berween Republicanism and Monarchy iietatorship and the Presidency Despoisra and free Government. 1 fully ivnlerstand these terms, and, I assure you, appreciate the difference between the rights of a free citizen, and the jurti't'tVe of a subject. Democracv must finally sw V riumph. Hard names and Abolition intrigue cannot crush principles that are as old as time itself, and under which, this country prospered beyond anythig ever seeu or heard of before. Truth, crushed to earth, wili rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers ; But error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid its worshippers. I wish to say one word about the socalled "Union" party "the onlv true friends to the soldiers and to the Gov ernmeut, as they would have us believe. Now, there is not a Democratic soldier who does not know that this "Union" party is nothing but the same old "dorg" with a new name. Ihe lion s skin. which they have 6tolen, won't cover the ears, and even if it did, their aho J he, ah, he ! Would betray them whenever thev open their months ! Abolitionists the only true friends of the Union, forsooth ! They and the fire-eaters have caused all the dissensions and trouble that exist at this time. I tell you when we get home the nigger lovers will have to hunt their holes. They prate so loudly for the Union, whv don't they shoulder a mus ket, and come down and help light the battles for its preservation ? They are nothing but home patriots and hypocrites who care nothing for the Union for its sake, but the Union for the sake ger equality, which is what they are alter. But 1 have written enough. I subscribe mvhelf a Union, States Bight Democrat, and a deadly enemy both to secessionists and Abolitionists. JOHN D. PURCELL, Co. U, 52d Ind. Vols Shrewd inquiries are being made I S ..... I r s iw neater tne cup oi sorrow lias a saucer I Caa asy one tell us.

. VThy we don't Get Cotton. ' rst fe a . -

1 tie article we eive below, lroni the Boston Commercial Bulletin, is deserving the serious attention of our whole commprciftl stui tiiannf rf nrinrr rnmmiinitv - - .U..U It is indisputable that the present wasteful and wicked policy of the administratinn innrlilntr tli A UnncWirtri nfWtnn i t r. 1 . . . . . mense quantities oi tnat precious staple. A system that compels the wholesale den strnction of one ot the necessities of civilization is essentially . barbarous. But .... WssV ft ft V A W ; Those who were expecting that the ocnpation of the Lower Mississippi region by the federal armies would place at the disposal of northern manufactuiers an

abundance of cotton are beginning to re- incident got someof the listeners tothinkahze their mistake. That there was an ing, and their thoughts nrobablr traced a

immense amount of this staple stored along the lines of the Mississippi Souths

wn anu vne -ew unrans, aiacKson, ana dicament. This is a world of compensaMississippi Central Railroads, previous tion. We pay for all we get even for a to the fall of Vicksburg and the retreat cill of coal oil in a wide awake nroses-

of Johnston's army into Alabama, there is no nuesiiou. aui wnac me iugitive confederates have not been able to carry witn them into the interior has been burned, and thus lost to its uwuerb anu the great manufacturing lutcrests of the world, which, after all, are the greatest sufiferers by this vast wacrifice of property. Kecent accounts trom the isouthwest state that a vast conllagration of cot ton is raging throughout, the'state of Mississinni ud and down the fertile valleys ot the lazoo, i'earl, and Tom,i . . ... bigbee livers, from lhs Tallahatchie on me nortn to the lascagoula on the south and that only heaps of charred ruins await the advance of General Grant toward Mobile. But here the question ariseswny tins wanton and wholesale destruction of private property, by its ownere, unparallelel in the history of civilized warfare ? Why should the rebels destroy this particular kind of private property, which affords neither subslstauce to man nor beast, and is rather an obstacle than an aid to our offensive military operations ? Why do they not also destroy their other personal property in the same reckless manner when compelled to leave it to the tender mercies of the invader ? The answer to these "questions will give the key to the suicidal policy pursued by the government in its dealings with the non-combatant population of the Southwest, and show why the opening up of that fertile region is not followed by the commercial results anticipated. Under the rules adopted by the Var Department at Washington, in construing the radical acts of the last Congress, it is not a question with the people of the Confederate States whether they hall destroy their cotton or tell it to their conquerors (or a bona Reconsid eration. . 11 thev were at liberty to adopt the latter alternative there is no question but that they would prefer even a com pulsory sale of their property atone-half or one-quarter of its value, to its utter and irreparable loss. This has been defiuitely ascertained by persons who have been among them and learned their ani mus in regard to these transactions. But the uncompensated loss of their property with the restoration of federal authority, as it extends itself over their soil, is a foregone conclusion, and they have only to choose between the flames and confiscation by the Yankees. What more natural decision could they make under the circumstances ? Under this confis cation policy our government agents seize cotton wherever they can lay hands on it, and unless the owner shall prove that .', , , , . . . it he has always been loyal to the Union una never vy uru urum avtiiowieugeu J t... 1 1 1 -1 l-J 1 the authority of Jeff Davis s domination (which of course not one Southerner in a thousand could do, if disposed), his : :i !.. i sneak of the monstrouslv nninat onPraJ ivii vi a at io kJi v.vivu 111 ati au j s,actf tvioi Aft i c nritiAn it-. r, a .r a,Ao Z I . . ' most short sighted and latal as regards r nnA n,.f0,;.i vita vm ii I'viiiivm wuva u a.v i iai unci cn.Oi . eV, f.L i..ef ..X c tt: sentiment among southern planters, and ead them to; choose death rather than submission. A liberal commercial poli cy is now wantea wherever our arms have gained us a foothold upon southern soil. This in the end will prove to be the most potent conqueror, after the Union armies shall have done their appointed work. and will not only save millions worth of cotton from the torch, but reestablish the moral foundations of the Union. Z3T Outbreaks are continually occur ring in various parts of the State, pro voked in every instance bv internal abp litionists. Wo have it from gentlemen who arrived in this citf yesterday, from adioininsr counties, that Kennblicans are ureinc these sort of infamous fellows on m their localities. The statements of - w . mints in the interest of those disunionists, made here in Indianapolis, should, it is declared, be taken without a particle 'of credence abroad. ; Democrats throughout Indiana are resolved to maintain law aud order, peaceably if ihey can. yKi. Sentinel. , that arti , !JS3ff'' What do y ou cte?' inquired Obadlah ask for iah of & young Miss. Iifteen shillings. "Airil y6rj a little Jdera?' "Why she replied blushing, 'all the young men tell me so.

Compensation.

;Many of our wide-awake friends, who "ported, capes,, cap i and torches in the last J.re8Vdtia! campaign, will appreciate . i. , j ion . As one of the drafted "men came out of the Marshal's office day before yesterday, iJJ',st toree hundred dollars shorter than I when be went in. he cast his clance around. pon the lugubrious faces of the expec Unt thronsi standintrin tlie hall, whbse hour had not yet come, and soothed his marea spirits inus : "uoys, nree years a 1 " "Vide Avake," and wore a glazed cape at my own expense but the coal oil was said to be free. They are now settling that count : I've naid mln and coal oil achere's the receipt in full." ' Saying which, ished his rnmmntstinn rinK1 he flour The Tittle strong connection between their actions three vears airo and their unenviable tresion. Payment may be delayed for a year or two. but t is sure toeome. The old nroverb is yet true, that "the gods sell goods Ut thr fai-.; ;.,..t.,.t;nre . ..-ww M.H....n P II I r oil. Ot course, and tninv a man now stands, as did our friend" mentiond above. thinkinir of vtorch-liVhts: and"Kolilonnis. ing to himself ''that thus the whirligig of time brings on his revenges.",, , ; . . Why Thev Are "Greenbacks." Most Deonle have varv little idea whv th . . V notes ot our national currency, generally known as "greenbacks," are printed, in green colors. Ihe reason as Riven by an exchange is this : Ever since the adoption of paper currencv it has been the constant 6tudv of the oanknote engravers to get up some plan of printing bills that conld.not be counterfeited. . In this they onlv partially succed'd till, as late as 1857, a man nam'd Stacy J. Edson invented a kind of green ink, which he patented June 30 of that year. It is called anti-photograph ink, because it can not be photographed on account of its color, and can not be dislodged by alkalies by the counterfeiters to get a complete fac simile of the bills. And as it a secret known only by the American Bank-Note Company and the inventer, it is impossible to. counterfeit the greenback money. It was used by many banks before the war, but was never a leading teature in the bill, but even if the composition of the ink was known it would be of no use, as the work could not be copied from the genuine bills with any kind of ink. . The date of the patent can be seen on all the bills, in small print. ,-. ; ; . j. .-. i .- The Blessings ok "Freedom." The enlisted negroes are doing very well, but the negro camps of refugees women , old men and children are in a sad condition ; disease and disorder prevailing, i .i. . i .a ... aim me poor creatures aymg oy me Hundreds. No one seems to have anv snner t e 1 vision over or concern for thcrn Xash ville Cor. Xeto 1 ori Times. But then, haven't they got "Liberty ?" What more do they want ?" '" T X-3T The Abolitionists, at their mass meeting in this city on Thursday last, iror mortahzed themselves .by .hanging. Mr. V allandighamr the Democratic candidate for Governor, in. effigy. It is. the same treatment General Jackson and Stephen A. Douglas received from the opposition and yet they claim to be "Jackson Dem- ') t vr .i. mi i wilt not be long before they will claim to ,a . - , ,aMifM. vii.. w" "v' " ivi a sji xii . ' a; hftm . T - tt1.ri1.a, wll:iA and cUim ,.1 them wUen deadCarAe County ( 0.) Dem. . t t ' ' . . ' ' : . A k,lful housekeeper Say 8 that 1 r ha nnnlnflcanf cA r eptciniv f rswn ham aiwr uniu VI a 1 a. 1 a. 1 L r - - v - 6. - .u.1(WW7.vW.iBvMj throwing whole red peppers into the pot, I 11 m m n.l aMha e n m a t m a 4 Ka Hastasi a i 4 k -v -1 improved. It is said that pieces of charcoal produce the same effect. Do you mean to insinuate that I lie, sir?' exclaimed a fierce looking mustached gentleman to a raw. lankee. who hinted some slight skepticism as to one of his stout statements. "No, mis ter, not at all only it kind o' strikes me that you are 'tarnal savin'of truth." t3T A chapdown in Connecticut after the passage of the Conscription Act, got married to evade the draft.' He now says, if he can get a divorce he wil enlist, as if he must fight, he would rath er do so for his country."That's the Wat tue Mohet Goes.' " lfc stateu tnat there are sixty thou I y ft a sand more otTicers now under the pay o the Government than there were under the Democratic administration of affairs, when peace and prosperity regained. Provost Marshals ! Draft Commissioners! Enrollihg Boards! Military Governors! Mamp lax uuicers i national lianfe urn : oers J Herdsmen for abscounding Contrabands ! School Teachers for the "Loyal - blacks" of Soujh Carolina I . ets., els. I Toor Patrick Henry. If he complained of the number King George sent among ns to eat out our substance, what would he say now: rort Wayne Times.

Occaaional Truths from Republican . BattrCc. ,The New Haven (Conn.) Courier, a devoted Republican paper, says :

Contractors have carried on the war. The blood of onr men, the graves of our killed, the tears of onr orphans and wid ows, hare been coined into mcnev. They have swindled the Government out of millions. They have piled fortune upon fortune. As a distinguished officer at Washincrto said, "all the operations of thU war. are managed, by political swindThe ITarrisburg Telegraph, published by an office holer under Lincoln says : The lust of gain, the greed of power and temptation otf position, which now prevails among a "very large class in the free States; has had much to do with the prolongation of the war. Again : Seven out of every ten officesrs now in the service deem it to their interest to prolong the-war, him ply because with the end of the war will come a suspension of position and salary, such as these men never received before, and never can re ceived in any civil position for which their talents fit them. And again :' Added to these are a large class in the mercantile and financial world, men of immense intluenc. who are amassing co lossal fortunes solely by the prolongation of the war. - - - - Thurlow Weed on the Abolition ' " Mayor of New York. Thurlow Weed is out in another letter. in which he says: "It is to be regreted. also, that lea ding, boisterous Abolitionist, who are so tree of their abuse ot all who differ with them, fail to justify their precepts by their examples.' The editor of the Independent, whos'e zeal for the draft led him to rail-at air who questioned its wisdom, when drafted himself, ingloriously shirks from: taking his share of duty and danger I Shame on such a sneak! Subject by law to military duty, and con stantly pressing others into the field, Mr. Tilton must be craven in spirit, without patriotism, pride or manhood, to skulk a draft himself, while he is meiciless in regard to the mechanic and laborer, who is compelled to leave hiswife and chil dren." :' "Still more mortifying, if possible, is the course of Mayor Opdyke, whose drafted son, instead of galiently stepping orwaid as an example to poor men skulks ! The Mayor is filled with patriotism at Conventions and in proclamations; re is gorged with Government contracts; he leans ' heavily upon the Government to make good hi.s lost profits; but his son, when drafted, is not 6trong enough to .be a 6oldicr! He is, however, strong enough to hold offices; but these offices do not expose him to, any thing but salary aud fees. Being a soldier is quite a different thing. Out upon such false pretenses such cheap loyalty such bo gus patriotism!" ;! ; 'A Copperhead Scheme. A gigantic niggerhead scheme of colonizing, to elect urougn uovernor oi Ohio has been discovered, ihe plan is to contract with and pay the niggerheads in Indiana, who have no families, to come to -Ohio, ostensible tor the pur pose of laboring, who are to receive part payment in advance,' and take an oath that -they will vote for Brough. The desperate schemes will be nipped in the bud. Kew Isvestios A. geinus down East intends applying for a machine which, he says, wben.wouud up and set in motion, will chase a hog over a ten acre lot, catch, yoke, and rinz him . or by a slight change of gearing, it will chop ' m .w - . ill LU lutvF aauaakCDi nuit uia uiiobi tuiv shoebrushes. and manufacture his tail into a cork-screw. The 7&G2t03 Motto. - "Union, harmony, concession ; every thing for the cause, nothing for men." Andrew Jackson. This was the watchword of the Jack son Democracy in 1832. It is the watch word of the Jackson Democracy of lcU.5 Push on: the column. B3T Queen Victoria, says the Londnn Sfaf 1 has unquestionably owed much of the happiness of her reign to a fellow srifp felling between herself and the na tion, and that must have been greatly strength- ened by her habit of going about the country and looking in the face great masses of people. The Prince of V Irs is doing the same thing. - Besides indulg ing himself freely in the pleasure common to the most of us besides going on the race course and the hunting field with as little of formality aspossible he seems to take an unaffected interest in public ceremonies of a philantropic or edeca tioaal character. f lnx URAVE.- At buries every . error, w -w ft covers every. defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom springs none but tender recollection Vh"o can look down upon , the grave of an enemy and not feel, a compunctious throb that he shonhl have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before, him? The best thing a man can take with him to the grave is CHARACTER.

ALL SOETS OP PABAQRArilS. TwrJ sons of Edward Everett were dratted in Boston a few days ago. when their father, a vigorous war advocate, patriotically stepped forward and pail the

"5300 exemption fee ! A cn of Wendell Phillips was aldo drafted about the same time, when the distinguished Abolitionist and nineteen year old disunionis-t walked up and forked over S300 to aid in filling the ranks of our army and tuppoi ting the Government ! Out of twenty-four thousand paroled rebel prisoners that marched out of Vicksburg, it is said that about twenty thou sand deserted by the time they had marchd seventy miles. It is safe to say that we have got fairly rid of thirty thousand rebel scldiers by the capture of Vicks burg. Vicksburg was laid out in 1S22 bv Neivit Vick and incorporated in 1-5. It has always been celebrated lor its fino fruits and vegetables and for its short lived editors. Seventeen of this unfortunato class have come to an untimely end by the duello, street fights, or suicide, since the establishment of the Whig, the first new&ptper published there. There are a good many Republican papers that are disdoyal. They are always finding fault with the Government. There is one disloyal practice they are not guilty of, however. They never quibble about the Constitution. When you hear a War Democrat jus tifying his apostacy, and clinching it with the assertion that "he is a Dougla Dem ocrat, isn t the conclusion irresistablo that he is a Fred Douglass Democrat. Catskill Recorder. -The Government, it must be confessed. allows tho telegraph to' work with perfect freedom at all times except when there is news to commuicate. Louisville Journal. It has been thought that people are degenerating, because they don't live as long as m the days of Methuselah. But nobody can afford to live long at the cur rent prices. This war Democracy, talked about so much, are not fighting Democracv.--They stay at home and give it as their de cided opinion that other people ought to prosecute the war vigorously. The Russian General Mouravieff is the author of a late atrocious edict, condemnng Polish ladies who wear mourning for their kindred who have fallen for Polish iberty, to be Hogged with rods, or pay a fine of from i!3 to 100 roubles. A St Paul dispatch says that the mil itia of Minnesota are being disaiined by the Governor in order to arm the Union League. Are the Union Leaguers pre paring to secede ? Gen. Neal Dow, well known as the author of the Maine liquor law, was, ac cording to a statement in the Picayune, recently sued in a court at New Ooleans, by Bradish Johnson, for removing from his plantation a quantity of sugar, silverware, fcc, without the plea of "military necessity." Judgment was rendered against the General for 81,454 The skeleton of a man was found stand ing upright lately among the cargo of an Australian ship on her arrival at London. ie had evidently tried to get a free pas sage, and was walled up by the cargo. The condemnation of the radical mea sures of the Administration in power is the highest obligation of a patriot. Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky. An eminent divine preached, Sunday e . ft a morning, irom tne text : "le are children of the devil." and in the afternoon, by a nnny coincidence, "Children, obey your parents. "Vanity Fair," which died once and ft m was resurrected is again detunct this time from au overdose of Loyal Leaguerism. The New York Chamber of Commerce has published a statement of the Federal vessels destroyed or bonded by Confdiate cruisers, in all loO, measuring 61,419 tuns, and valued at 811,050,000. The abolitionist, like the tories of the revolution, are the loyalists. The Democrats, like tne lathers oi the revolution. are the Patriots. The New York Herald persists in the statement that General Fremont will be brought out as an anti Cabinet Ik pull i- . can candidate for the Presidency. . Moliere was asked the reason why, in certain countries, the king may assume the crown at fourteen years of age, and cannot marry before eighteen. It u, answered Moliere, "because it is more deceit to rule a wile than a kingdem. . The press published a4 paragraph recently, respecting a scented diamond. Most woman would prefer to have a diamond sent. . All the Republican papers say that the motto of "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God," is a disloyal sentiment. If it is, then the men of 7G, who achieved our independence, are traitors.' The teachings of the past have been a mistake. From our youth up. we have been taught that "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." It U now shown to be tliree hundred dollars ! The Hartford Times figures the cost of the conscriprion as equal to that of sup porting an army of 300,000 men for ona year.