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John Bell, of Tennessee, and is worth about $11,000. As but some $5,000 only have been paid on her, the Government will be benefited by the seizure only to that amount. Secretary reward at home. On Thursday evening the Willard Guards, of Auburn, paid a marching salute to Secretary Seward, at his private residence in Auburn, New York. A vast crowd of people had gathered, and in the course of a few remarks Mr. S said: You will ask, tell us when the war will end? It may terminate nAuburn, New York. A vast crowd of people had gathered, and in the course of a few remarks Mr. S said: You will ask, tell us when the war will end? It may terminate next week, next month, next year. That depends upon you. If you are brave, if you are loyal, if you are noble, the war will soon be brought to a successful issue. If you have the strength. It is for you to compel a peace. The United States possesses 20,000,000 free citizens, the disloyal States 8,000,000. If you are equally as brave, as devoted to the cause of your country as they are to their cause, the war must soon terminate; but if they are more courageous, more active; if they are the s
tucky and on our Atlantic coast generally were adopted. Boston fired 100 guns and the Puritan Legislature passed thanks to the Federal soldiers. The 100 guns were fired by direction of the Mayor. The citizens intended to fire five hundred! Great people! How differently acted the people of the South when the great battle of Manassas was fought! At Albany, the Legislature gave itself up to cheering, and bonfires were lighted in the streets; Washington city, a national salute; Auburn, New York, 100 guns; Geneva, 100 guns and bells; Troy, 100 guns; Rochester, Poughkeepsie, Burlington, Vermont, and Westchester, Pennsylvania, all of them guns or bells, or fires, and most of them celebrated with all these modes of exultation. In short, Lincolndom generally went mad over the victories achieved by their "infernal gunboats," as Mr. Foote calls them. San Francisco.--By telegraph the Northern papers say they learn that the Donelson news has reached San Francisco and caused "grea
, dated the 9th says Blunt is in a bad way. It adds: "Advices from Fort Scott say that a courier arrived there on Friday night from General Blunt, bringing information that the rebels, under Cooper and Shelby, eluded our forces, crossed the Arkansas river with 9,000 men, and were marching on Blunt, who has 1,800 cavalry as an escort to an immense supply train for Fort Smith. Gen Blunt had curtailed his train and made preparations for defences." Lehigh coal sold in Philadelphia on Monday last at $11.20 per ton of 2,240 pounds--a figure never before attained in that city. Gold was quoted in New York Thursday at 146½. Secretary Seward, in a speech at Auburn, N. Y., last week, said that "it is injustice, and downright robbery of Abraham Lincoln to refuse him the full enjoyment of the authority conferred upon him" in the election of 1860, and that "there can be no peace and quiet until Abraham Lincoln is President, under that election, of the whole United States."
John M. Botts to the Sanitary Commission. --An autograph letter of Mr. Botts, dated Auburn, Culpeper county, Virginia, and exhibited at the New York Fair, has the following: When I have seen a wounded soldier on the field, I have not stopped to ascertain whether he wore a blue jacket or a gray. It has been enough for me to know that he was a disabled and suffering fellow-creature to secure for him my sympathy and such comforts as I could bestow; and such, I believe, have been the instincts of the United States Sanitary Commission. With this experience, derived from personal observation, I cannot but appreciate the generous, noble, and Christian like object to be effected by the association of which you are an organ, and therefore it affords me pleasure to comply with your request by sending this poor contribution to your autograph letters, concluding with the earnest prayer that the present year may put an end to a conflict which is not only demoralizing the whole country —
ith one piece of artillery and a caisson. The enemy's force outnumbered mine, but the surprise was complete. Alvan C. Gillem, Secretary Seward's campaign — no draft. On Saturday evening last a large crowd of the citizens of Auburn, New York, including several hundred volunteers who were waiting to be mustered into the service of the United States, congregated in the grounds adjoining William H. Seward's residence, in that city, and called for the Secretary to address them. In no draft, as there were plenty of volunteers going to the war, and argued to show that the preservation of the Union depended upon Lincoln's re-election. The stump oration which the Secretary of State delivered to his fellow-citizens of Auburn, New York, on Saturday evening last, is an important pronunciamento. He opens the Presidential campaign with the announcement that the salvation of the Union depends upon the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, and that the war must continue until the rebels
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], George N. Sanders and the Chicago Convention. (search)
George N. Sanders and the Chicago Convention. --Seward lugged Sanders into his Auburn speech in this wise: It remains for me now only to give you the proof that although the way in which the Chicago Democracy did what had been agreed upon in their behalf at Niagara was not altogether satisfactory, yet what they actually did was accepted as a full execution of the previous compact: "St. Catherine, C. W., September 1, 1864. "To Hon. D. Wier, Halifax: "Platform and Presidential nominee unsatisfactory. Vice-President and speeches satisfactory.--Tell Philmore not to oppose. "George N. Sanders." D. Wier is a Richmond accomplice at Halifax, and Philmore is understood to be the conductor of the insurgent organ in London.
nd sweep over our borders from the Mississippi to the sea in an inundation of retaliatory invasion. Woe be to the day when two hundred thousand semi-civilized Africans, trained in life-long obedience to the officers by whom they will be led, shall have glared in the spirit of savage vengeance from long and deep ranks upon the fields and homesteads and men and women of our Southern border. Miscellaneous. A squash, weighing one hundred and fifty-one pounds, is on exhibition in Auburn, New York. A woman who was jealous of her husband was burned to death in Canada, the other day, by his throwing kerosine oil, lighted, all over her. John Dolen, of Virginia City. Nevada territory, was recently convicted of stealing seven hundred dollars, and was hung within twenty-four hours afterward. A drover in Cincinnati lost four hundred dollars, which a cow swallowed, a fact that was ascertained by finding in her mouth pieces of the greenbacks.--He had her killed, and picked