Shelby Volunteer, Volume 20, Number 24, Shelbville, Shelby County, 18 February 1864 — Page 1
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VOLUNTEER
HELfiY
VOL. XX.-NO. 24. SHELBYVILLE, IND. FEBRUARY 18, 1864 WHOLE NO; 1018
tilt: S11ELB1' VOLILM'EEK It pbliihe4 erery Thurvlay morning at Siiklbttills, Shluy County, Indiana, by REUI3EX SP1CER.
TERMS: 1.50 .1 R, INVAUIABLY IN ADVANCE. at pM nntil the expiration of C months, te-)t t il l until the ex.irtion f tlie year.. Jjj"!' Ue term will be rii'lly alu-rl to. 1.7 8,0 RATES OF ADVERTISING: J j Ten lirsc-ct Nonpariel or its equivalent in space con -ttte a sc-jn ire.
f I w'k I :t m's i m'n I y'r aqore, 50.75 I sT'i I :'. I ''" 9-.00 j"rnrii. l) -.'.IHI 4.IH) 7.1H Ut.tm Column. "" I 7.IH ) l-j.OH y(U0 lnmn. I -H I'?'" I '" I rnlTimn. i I ' 'K- I 3.VIMI I 70.00 . v .
ir r Nti-es in the spTi-t notice nlnmn will he charged per rent, in allition to the aliove rates. Vi All transient advertisements must he paid for in a2ane. V r" T.e-ril '1rertiemenM mnt be naid for in advance, or
m rr"nile pern rwinntee the imvment of the sam full and complete. Ilavinjr had a rum'r of years esperiH xriratin. I,o?al advertivnlents will 1 charged fifty . enre in the trade. I profess some knowle.leof the business, ,enti a 'U"ire for e:ich insertion. I awl exercise the same in the selection of my (roods, and it is V7 Announcements of marria7s and deaths trmti. seldom that an iuferior article is palmed upon me. ' lr a lvertisip? rates will !e char-d for all obituary I have on hand the remnant of a large stock of
marks. TT7 Announcing candidates for office $2 always in adnce. , r , ' Vp A iHscreti-wary liWality will h extended to all Otices of a rliisious and charitahle nature. Advertisers will 1 restricted to their legitimate justness. JOB PRINTING ! The special attention of business men, and all others re firing any species of Job Printing, such Cm els, Cir-cnilnv , Handbils, Posters, Blanksofall ltinclrs, is call.-1 to the fact that the VOLUNTEER JOB OFFICE -teas been -refitted with a Full and Complete assortment of Plain -and Fancy Job Type, Borders, '?., )f the Titt and Most Approved Styles, which, in the hands f competent workm-n. etm'des me to execute any variety of lob Printing the community may !e. pleased to order, in a sfyle,unsurpsse I for neatness, on short notice, and at pric-s Jefyinii competition. A trial is respectfully solicited. An ample assortment of Cards, Cap, Letter, and colored nper always on han 1. IJUSLNliSS DlREUTOilV. MISCELLANEOUS. Shelbv o. Auctioneer. is TrX"VIt;3 taken out a license under the National Kxcise I'M hiiii Aaelioneer for Slielby County. I am pr-jaretl t alteni t all iiusines iw til it line.ainl here! y notity all j ;f r-timJl!ti at pu' lic outcry without liceose, except :ts j provide 1 in siid U.v, that they lay themsches liabii toaj (eailty or JoU Address JERltY WEAKLEY. Shelby villc, Dec. 4. l.M. ltlCIIAUD N0U1US, County Surveyor, MIF.LIBYVILLF., ISO. Special attention given to the drawing up of Deeds. Mortpaies. and all conveyances, wherein a description or land is ,eNU. lL' When absent orders may lje left at tlw Recorder's Mice in the Couat House. JAMES L. CAPP, Toii Contsi.llo. SUE LB YVILLE, 1XD1AXA. All business intrustcl with nu promptly attcmUJ to on sliort notice. Offlceat Esq. Brown's Leather Store, West side Harrison Street, iinl Uoor South of Volunteer Office. 8helbyvilie. Oct. 8. 163, tf. . H. CBiSt. A. C. B4 tS. CHASE X DAWES, WIIOLRSAX.C AN RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOTS V SHOES, Grlenii'4 J31ocli9 EAST t'ASULS GT OX STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Our artmnt of ?h es, i;iters, for Women, Misses .n 1 Children is unsurpassed in the West. mrly PROFESSIONAL CARDS. , K.M. JIOKD, .iV ttoi'iiey :it Inv 0Bce over Poel Office lr;ij; Store, SHELBYVILLE, IND. Farticnlar attention jriven to the collection of Soldiers daiias, IVnsions, Back I'ay, Bou.ty, Jtc. MlKIIN X. RAY, . TIIO'SW. WOOLEN. Sbelbyville, Tnd. Kraukliu, lnd. RAY Sl WOOLEN, attornens at Cam, I.DIAAPOLlS, l.D. TILL PRACTICE IN FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS. One or the otheJ of them will alwsvt be found at their !Bce,N. 10 4. It Me TaliKitt's BuihUng, South f Post O.Uce. v.6-ly a ' - . ... . I'. LOVE, ;vTT0R X-EY AT LAW, )!5ioeJforth-Wetcornr PuMie Square, over Fori Store, SHELHY VII LE, IND. Prarapt Mlentionciren to the collection of claims, irxslu ItBjSolJiers claims f.r B unty Money and Pensions. T A. 'rARLAS0. J. LOSdlst , XOBTOOJtCKT. 3flFAULAJVD & .HOtTCOnEllY, ,4 T TOR X F Y S AT LA W . "ill practice in the 4th and ath JudihUl Circuita.and Common Pleas Courts thereof, also in the Supreme myi Kelral Court. Special attention pi.Ten to the collection of lfre. 0;ace over Dr. RoUns' Drug Sor, ShellyTill Indiana. ' . JA.TIES IIABltlMIM, AJTORNEY AT LAW IEUBTT11U mi.
NEW CASH STORE AMD ZVcav Goods, JYo. 2, Ray House TUT. citizens of Shelby county re respectfully notiSen! thatat the atxve location tbey will alwaa And a full assortment of uf every article pertaining to the DRY GOODS Trade, bought at the Lowest Rates foreran, and will be sold lor the same. 1 shall aim to keep my st.ck of LADIES DRES5! GOODS CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, TWEEDS, Sheetings, Shirting, Flannels, c . .
READY-MADE CLOTHING, which was purchased In-fore the raise, and will positively be sold at first cost, to cke out the stuck. A fuil line of BOOTS & SHOES, lints and. Caps. Don't 1 deceived. hut eal I and examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere. Uemeiuber the plaie. No. ? Uay lluute ii tick. I'EllltY IllTTtL. J. H. M'GUIRE Sl CO., n A VIVO permanently located in Sbelbyville, are now cuaimfacturiiigand will kcepcuustantly onhiiud,a full assortment uf DOUBLE AND S1NCLE of the various Styles now in use. We have no hesitation in saying that we are now selliag for less money tluui any other establishment In theUte, PLATFORM AND ELLIPTIC SPRING WAGONS. All "Work "Warranted for Oho Year, AN EXAMINATION OF OUR STOCK SOLIl ITLDr I' IS ESepsiirin? Done to Order. AND RUM011S OF WARS, A EE heard on all sides, and tnanv " loyal men" are cxV orcised about the Conscription, hut tieing exempt from! I..... 1 I frl... q--...;.. 1 1.. iinii'rj (tiit-.y . aim Mum iiij; urc 'ciuc. tnjmuj cue ladie. and those like myseif. exempt, will desire to know thv time of day ;i!id not unfrequently adui n their persons with cold and silver ornaments, I have -'changed my hase of operations" one door south of my fortier location, to the room formerly occupied l.y N. Goodrich, and first door North of Ileisi, Itakery, where I purpose keeping constantly on hand a large and varid assortment ot thirty hour and eight day weight ami spring CLOCKS, GOLD AXD SILVER WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY, &c. I shall also keep constantly on hand an assortment of REVOLVERS of the latest and most approved patents, which, of course, will be sold to the truly "bal' only. it i .i f Mt i .r a Of all kinds done on short notice and in a workmanlike manner. Those desiring any article in my line will save money by levins me a call. A. J. HIGulNS. Shelly viile, Jane 1G3. tf NEW STOCK JUST RKCEIVED AT THE POST OIT'.OE DRUG STORL "ILfiiT T TTuvill I i ii HAVING purchased the stock and fixtures heretofore the saute. I am now irj andtosavto ti.e citizens of this c-.ty and Shelhy county that hereafter I will be enable.1 to ai..im m v. 4 1 r in v it . irilh Jvo r-f inner r ' n a 1 .a various brnrches or the DUt'OA. Al'OTII EC A KY TRADE. Particular ottention Riven to PRESCRIPTION'S Niht and day this part of the business we can attend to in conLection with principles of Science and Chemistry. , PHYSICIANS will find tuy stock full and complete, and prices as low as the lowest. Theojecti my business shall I to sati fy the want and wulies ot the public, and not the money. A call is solicited. unell J.H. LEEFERS. The Highest Market Price in Cash Paid for WOO- IL AT TflE SHELHY WOOLEN FACTORY,! I w.ttccur.
CARRIAGES
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
The Democratic State Convention of Ner Hampshire met at Concord, January 8th, to nominate a candidate for Governor and Railroad Commissioners. Hon. V. H. Dcxcax was elected President. E. W. Harrington, Esq., ofManchester, wag nominated for Governor on the first ballot. The Committee on resolutions reported the following, which were unanimously adopted : liesolaed. That we recur with satisfaction and pride to the uniform fidelity with which the Democratic party have sustained the Union, the Constitution and tiie laws, and that we repel with the contemptthey merit all imputations of infidelity coming from men who openly denounce the Constitution as n "covenant with'de.-th and an agreement wiih hell" or assail the integrity of the Union by covert attacks upon the elements of its organization. Resolved, That we have foretold and forewarned the people of the disasters which have come upon the country as the certain result of abolition agitation, and that noiv when our worst apprehension are likely to be realized, we shall not unsay the truths which we have spoken, by acquitting the abolitionists of the primary and principal guilt of these disasters. Resolved, Nevertheless, that recession was a ci ime against the Union and that we alw ys have been and still are determined to I'eleat its purpose,' and that we have undoubting faith that this end may be obtained by the adoption of a civil and military policy which looks to the restoration of the Union as the paramount object of the war. Resolved, That the distrust with which the policy of the Administration, has been regarded from the first, is justified and strengthened by the terms and the tone ol the President's message and accompanying proclamation, which we denounce as ahoiird and unconstitutional in detail, ami barbarous and revolutionary in purpose. Resolved, That we do not believe that the interests of either section of the Unjion, or of the white race or black, demand the immediate and violent abolition of slavery, nor that such a purpose is a necessary k proper, or constitutional object of the war; and that we are opposed to '.he policy of the Adminisiiaton as unwise, impolitic, cruel and unworthy thesnppott of a civilized and Christian people. . Resolved. That we have seen with distrust and alarm the repeated encroachments of the Administration upon the restraints of theCoiistitution and the rights ol the people, aud that we believe that the Government is now administered with a total disregard or the natural and con stitutional rights of the American people. These alarming inroads are seen in the suppression ot newspapers, the denial ol fiee speech, the suspension of the habeas corpus, the partition of States, the mili tary interference with elections, the nnpositions ol olilloxiotis OiltllS as the COU dition precedent to the exercise of legal rights, and that still greater enormities are foreshadowed in the late Presidential message and the earlj action of the present Congress. Resolved, That the Administration is not the Government, and that we owe it no allegiance beyond its own allegiance to the Constitution. Resolved, That we would hail with delight any manifestation ol a desire on the part ol the seceded States to return tothe Union, and that in such an event we would cordially and earnestly co-operate with their people in the restoration ol peace and Union upon the basis ol the Constitution; and that we believe it to be the imperative duty of the Administration to proclaim its readiness lor peace upn such conditions. Resolved, That we are opposed to the bank-destroying, contract impairing, money controlling,' dollar diluting, unconstitutional financial policy of Secretary (-base. Resolved, That, our financial Rystem prior to thi Administration was siiecesstil, satisfactory, safe and conservative; that under this system each State provid ed such a paper currency as its w ants re quired, leaving its use optional with unpeople, and the Fedei'al Government coined money and regulated the value thereof, and thus made, as in the case ol weights aud measuies, a uniloim standard ot coin. Resolved, That the assumption by the Administration of the right to issue a paper currency ami make it a legal tender and to establish banking corporation I . . , l . IV . - . , intne omereni states, is one oi tne most ,lanjreiOUS asslim ptions ol the timCS, and not on.v an outrage upon State, corpor- , n,Uvidual lights, but Calculated I rr ana uesigneu to control tne moneyed nower of the countrv. oikI tTms central ize political power in thTederal Gov ernment, f Resolved, That the enormons frauds which are constantly disclosed in every branch of the pnblic service, ani the pro fligacy and corrupt expenditure ol the public moneys in our National and State administrations, most fully justify the Kolemn declaration in Congress of a Republican Senator from this State, viz : j"I declare upon my own responsibility. asm Senator, that the liberties of this
country are in greater danger to day fromUo tight in prayer time, that they cannot
the corruption and from the profligacy practiced ia the various departments of
the Government, than they are from the enemy in the open field." The speedy return to the Democratic principles of strict accountability and economj in National and State affiirs alone can save the country from hopeles bankruptcy and ruin. Resolved, That we remember with becoming pride and gratitude, the conduct of our soldiers in camp and in th field, and that we extend our hearty sympathies to the friends of those who have fallen by the buUqt or disease. Hon. Edmund Burke, of Newport,
rose and read the following preamble and resolutions, moving their adoption : Whereas, The freedom of the elective franchise is essential tothe preservation of public lilierty, ami while that remains, all outrages and assaults upon the people's rights can be ultimately rediessed and remedied without a iecoure to arms; and, Whtreas, The Administration at Washington has in several instances inteifered in t lie elective franchise in several of the loyal States of the Union by military force, thus defeating and suppressing the true expression of the "people of those States, and subverting every fundamental principle of a Republican Government, theiel'ore, Besolved, That the freedom of the ballot must and shall be maii.tained sacred aud inviolable; and that we, the Democracy of New Hampshire, will unite with our brethren of other States, by force of aims, if need be, in resistance to every attempt from whatever source it may come, to overturn and abridge, by menaces, or direct interference by military force, the .independence and puiiety of the ballot-box in the ensuing elections. State and National ; and to this end we pledge each to the other, and to our brethren of other States, our lives, fortunes and sacred honors, being firmly resolved to maintain, at all hazards, our rights as free and patriotic citizens of the American Union. Resolved, further, That on r delegates to the N ational Democratic Convention, to assemble for the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency, be and are requested to present this subject to that body, in order that suitable measures may be devised for the protection of the people's rights, and that men .in power may be reasonably warned of the guilt and peril of such atrocious tieason against the sovereignty and majesty of the people as involvt d in" the attempt to suppress the freedom of the elective francliise. The reading of the preamble and reso lutions was frequently interrupted with cheering, and they were adopted with a unanimous vote. Vice President Hamlin's "Picture." Vice Piesident Hamlin, in his late speech at the Cooper Institute, said : "We have a class of men anions us in Maine who very much want the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was. Have you got them here? Voice-, 'Yes.' I am very sorry indeed that they cannot have it. It is mere demagoguism, mere clap trap ; it is nonsense it is not very good .nonsense. Why. the Uniionas it was ? f there are men m this goodly, city of New York who have any tears over such results, I am in clined to the opinion that they are croco dile tears. 11 you have got those, here who have tears to shed over the Union a it was, I think that would form a very good sketch for a picture." This is from the Vice President of the United States. It is a sneer at the Union as it vas. It was a sad day for us when a party got power in a government under a Constitution they were opposed to, and over a Union they disliked. This man took an oath to support the Consti tution as it is and the Union as it was, when he evidently wa opposed to both. He thinks any one who hed tears over the Union as it was must shed crocodile tears. He is not one of them. He thinks a man who would weep over the Union as it was would make a good sketch for a picture, to be laughed at for sorrow over the loss of such an evil. The Late General Lytle. A cot respondent wiites to the Bos'ou Courier: "1 cannot refrain from sending you the following bit. an extia-i from a pi ivate letter received from a relative of the late William H. Lvtle, o Cincinnati. It will peak for itself : Cousin Will's sisters were much affected by the kindness with which his remains were treated by the Confederates. A 'or. federate surgeon, who identified him. cut off some of his hair to send to his sisters. They also t.ent his private pa per, watch, chain and money. They had the grave marked with a slab, and when the metalje coffin wan sent for the body, placed it temierly in it. They had covered the wounds in hia face, first with green letves, then with lace net and a fine oambric handkeichief. His remain were escorted to the lines by sixteen Confeder ate officers, none under' the rank of Col onel." At church some clasp their handt ! get them open when the contribution box , come round.
The Democratic Party. (strong; the Democratic party waathereWe could seldom, with a clear con-tore, bound by its principles to oppose a
science, take cither ideas or illustrations from Wendell Phillips; but, in his speech the other night, he used a figure so apt that we arevontentto borrow it, although in a different sense from what he intend ed. Phillins said that Democracy is a raft. The wares may wash over it, and j , a
keep your feet wet ; but no storms can I n Tas s tne same w ar between centrasink it. We do not stop to inquire! Ii2c J power on the one side nn ! locsl pop. whether this'is trueof abstract democracy, ! u-ftr liberty on taeoiher. Th black Rethough we believe it is ; but we confident-! publicans were for clothing the , gcneial ly apply it to the Democratic partv of the; government with complete power over the
I COUlitrv. The waves, ir., ee. . iiashe.1 over . it in the late elections, but only . freshwater sailors or land-lubbers can have any fears that it will therefore go down, ligiires of speech, of course, are not arguments ; we wiil quit metaphor, and proceed to state, as succintly as possible, the grounds of our confidence in the enduring vitality ol the Democratic paity. It the Democratic party is founded on principles which are trtie. i:i themselves and adapted to this epoch, the paity will endure J otherwise not. In our intimation, the Democratic party i founded oti principles that can never become obsolete. It is in the very nature of power 1 encroach on liberty ; the histoiy of political freedom in all ages is the history of struggles in which popular rights and local franchises are engaged on oneide, figjins the lut of dominion on the other, l.t ia contest of the rights of the many against the domination of the few a contest tha' will have to be perpetu tlly renewed a long as the world stands. The Democratic party of thi country came into being at the liist formation o! patties under our go.einmeut. It has stood its ground ami maintained in identity from tint day to this, while its opponents have undergone as many changeas Proteus. It has outlived the Federal party, the National Republican party, the anti-Masonic party, the Whig paity, the Nnow-Nothing party ; and the Iliack Republican paity, its most recent opponent, is in its lat agonies, trying to shullle oil its mortal coil and appear in a new body as the so-called Union party. The obi Federal, ami Whig parties did not fall throii;li from any want of talents arid ability ; they, doubtless, had more intellectual cultivation in proportion to theii numbers than the Democratic party ha ever had. Rut talent is naturally anfbitious, and ambition covets power ; while the sure instincts and unbiased common sense of the people always guide them to correct conclusions respecting their rights and interests. The Democratic party has flourished in undecaying youth because 11 has always been in sympathy with the masses of the people. Superficial thinkers, who are capable of seeing nothing' in political, struggles but their costume, are apt to fancy that when the Alien and Sedition laws, and the bank question, and the tarilfquestion. and the internal improvement question have become obsolete, the Democrat itparty is therefore hastening to its giave. Rut all these separate questions ate only the battle-fields on which successive con tests have been maintained between popular rights on one side, and thirst of power on the other. Ever since our government was founded there has been a party w hich aimed to concentrate in its hands more power than the Constitution, without a strained construction, confers upon it. It has been ihc mission of the Democratic paity, ever since the origin ol paiunder the adiuinitiation of the eld-i Adams, to resist and check this tendeuTo say that the Democratic party ha outgrown tne necessity tor its existence implies either great ignorance of it piinciples or great ignorance of the tendencies of the time. The one thing which the Democratic parly has steadily and persistently done from the beginning, is to resist me accumulation ol power -i i by the federal government What a set ol po litical bats must the journalists be tint flutter blindly about in the day-time and declaie that the Democratic party has out lived the issues on which it was founded . 1 here has never Im-'Ji a time when the tendency to ilnj centralization of powei in the federal government was a hunIredih part as great as it is now. And yet those journalistic bats, who see all the worse in proportion as thu light is strongr, flap their membranous wings, and ciy out that the Demociatic natty is not lapted to pivsent conjuncture. Such persons never understood the Democratic patty. The Alien and Sedition laws vested dangerous powers in the head ol the federal goveroment. That particular itiestion has been obsolete ever since the election of JetTeron ; but the principle that the federal government must be te urauiea w.ui.n me g.ame.. powers u.., never become obsolete, hecanse attempts . . .i . i tn tiiidulv Pnhiri'P thi Ant hnrif w of the led - ..,.,.;,.. .f,Lo.i.
eral government will never cea-e to be j country will nnqnetionably be the poormade. The United State Dank tended j er eveiy day the war continues !" There to consolidation by allying the whole j lvij iia"ve Q fta extra 9e,s;onofth8 money power of the country with the ten- , , T . . ne r i i .- . . i,.l; i Loyal Leaguars, to examine this case ol dencv to federal usurpation ; and on thu .
ground it was opposed by the Democratic t.nrtv 'I ho iiart v otinnsed renerI k vs -
tern of internal improvements on precise-j Some men keep savage dogs ly the same principle. Disbursing Vas4' around their houses, so that the hungry sums of numey. fur. local purposes was j poor who stop to "get a bite" may it get unconstitutional, and it w ould have creat-i outside the door. ed a mas of patronage dangerous alike - ."""' t i . to liheitv and to political puuty. A high A Amiable omas.--A Lotvlon ,w- . I ' : i . ...r. . man latelv otiarrelei th her husband
expenditure would, in like manner, have tended to reader tbe central authority too tariu. an overcrow u i e en uc, auu ui oi use
inn. .xuese parucui.tr question?, lia tbeir turn, became obsolete; br.t tho
Democratic party did not die with them. because its principles are as perennial as in the tendency of power to usurpation and abuse. The question of slavery in tl territories ivai the next battle-field ; but KCI laslllinion ol all Uie Icl lllones. The Demociatic patty, under the vigorous leadeiship of Douglas, stood up for j opular soven igiity. Had the question Uvn le!t in the h in. Is of tlr i-.mnn;nii?e immediately inteiestcd, lids cruel war would never have taken i lace. What we l eg the ie ler aiticii'arly to remark is, that, tl i.'UgUbut our whole political histoiy, although the co-luiue has fitqnently been changed, it has been the s;tiiie identical struggle between cx01 bitant federal pretensions h the one side and popular liberty on the o:L'er.-jp To Mippo-e that ihi stirgglc has tccomf bsolete, only betokrns "the j-bullou nes of the sop poser. . To fancy tlit'tlic pjesent is a time when th? Democrat i- party has no woik heftr it, th performance of which is demanded by its principle is to be as incapable of discerning t tie signs iif the times as a bat is of seeing in the day-time. If the Dcti.ocialio i.aihj weie annihilated to-day it vu'dd sj lit:g up again to-morrow. It is 111 the natuio ol things that ovcigrown power will bej come oppressive, and that pait of the community who hope to share neither the" pow er nor the plunder that is to say. th Democratic masses will resist. " Rut what is the prospect now ? To those who aie capable of looking beneath1 the surface of things and teeing th j iin ciplcs that undeilie them, the prospectwas never better. Mark i , wc do nut sajr that the prospects of ihvcuiihtry were r.er--er better (for God knows they were never worse), but that the vitality of the Democratic party was never so Mire to assert itself. Ruidensrme taxation, stifleiing, wretchedness, will come to the dwelling of the common people, aud they will" shake the Rlaek Republican temple till not oue stone is left upon another of its1inins. This is as certain as that night follows day ; ami, in revolutionary times like these, changes in public sentimentare often very sudden. In August,, list year, the Republicans felt secure of a largo majority in every state ; but the fall elec- 1 tions nevertheless, all went against them. This fall the Democratic raft dipped into the trough of the sea, and th w aves w ent 1 over her ; lut the storm is high, and she ' will mount with the boundihg billow. She is mi constructed that nothing ca sink her. A'. J. World, Dec., lfG3. T Hon. Htcii McCiLLoccii, comptroller of the cuiiency, ha- issued a circular to the riiMiiagers of the National Rank, in which he says : "Rear constantly in mind, although the loyal Slates appear snpci licially to be in a prosperous condition, that such is not the fact. That while the Govern iiient i engaged in the suppression of lebelliou ot unexampled In icciiees nd magnitude, and is constantly draining thecouuliy ol jt s labot ing and piodiiciiig population, and divcithig iis mechanical industry iiom wot ks of prinuneut value to the t-oustinction of implement of waifare; while cities are crowded, and i he country is to the amerxt nt dei-letcd. tnd warte and extravagance prevail as they never befoia prevailed in th United Mates, the Nation, whatever m iv 1' the external indication, is not pioiiinir. The war in which we ate involved i a stein necessjt, and must I r piosccutid for the presei vation of the Government, no matter what may be its ct,st ; but the country w ill unquetiuabl y be the poorer every day it is continued. The .earning ptosj eiiiy of the loyal States is owing mainly to the large cxpendittnes of the Government and the re Inn Lint currency which these expenditure heem to render necess-aiy. Kep these Tacts constantly in mind, nd manage the affair of your repectivs ' banks with a perfect consciousness that the apparent prosperity of the country will bepjown to be unreal'wheri th war is closed, if not Lefoie; aud Le prepared, by a carefol management of the trnst commute 1 to yon, to help to save the nation from a financial collapse, instead of lending vo ir influence to make it inoio ceiiain and more severe." I the comptroller "loyal," in thut -giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," aRMMt; that the Countrj is nol pros . , .... , - , faring un.ter abolition rnie 7 "in ! I' o j trcaon I ' . . . n'1 t'"M "'"bod "er ana cul uer own tkf01