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, 1862-06-07
Direct Route to Lewiston.

In our last issue published letter, written by
Mr.. Henderson, concerning the much talked of road
between Walluls and Lewiston on the direct route.
and publish the following as correct state.
ment. and one on which our readers can rely as
being the facts in relation to the route mentioned.
By an examination Of the maps of the public sur
veys see that the route direct from wauls strikes
the Touchet in about twenty miles thence it is six
teen miles to the Mullan crossing thence eight miles
to Dobson 8, Reed creek thence twelve miles to
the Nez Perces trail at Whetstoue's, and six miles
more to the Misunderstanding sixty four miles as
the distance from Wallula to the Tukannon; while
the distance BY way of this place is thrty-one and
half miles to Walla Walls and forty two miles more
by the county survey to the Tukannon or seventy.
three and half miles in aIl-making difference in
favor Of the direct route of only nine and half miles
Now on the direct route the first twenty miles are all
sand, so we are informed by several men who have
passed over it. Next to twenty miles of sand comes
eight miles Of high rolling hills to be passed over to
avoid the Touchet canon Thence the road is equally
as good as that by this place.
Now we AJAX ift is better to travel twenty miles of
sand, with no water, and put up with the inconven
iences resulting therefrom, or travel few miles fur
ther and have easy marches, good road, and plenty
Of water at short intervals
We state the above for the purpose Of giving the
travelling public idea of the two routes and their
relative advantages being aware that the truth is
never injurious and being willing that all should
know the real difference in the distance between the
two routes.
One serious drawback is about being removed on
She route via Walla Walla-thc absence of good
bridge on the Touchet river. The contract for this
work is to be let by the County Commissioners Oh
Monday next and the bridge will probably be done in
two weeks from that time. In the meantime the toll
bridge built BY private parties out Of the Government
mbers, will be In operation about three quarters of
mile below the county road crossing, which will give
the public good route across the water until the
county bridge is completed The foods In the streams
are to bear the blame hesped upon the country by
the many travellers who have passed through it this
spring, and as Rome not built in one day, nei
ther can country three years old be expected to
have all the "infcrna improvements" as Mrs. Part
ington calls them, which belong to all we'll regulated
and long established communities.
, 1862-06-07

DIsoRDERLY CoNDUCT.-We learn that dis
turbance occurred in Col. Cornelius command, on
the way up to this post, in the following manner
private by the name Of Rot inson, having i'm
bibed somewhat of the ardent" became disor-
derly, and contrary to orders persisted in falling
out of the ranks. He drew revolver and made
some threats, whereupon Sergeant Clark under
took to disarm him, when he fred upon Clark,
inhicting severe wound in the shoulder. Rob
inson resisted being taken, and was fred upon by
the men, one Of the balls taking effect in the ab-
domen and the other in the knee. The wounds
are considered mortal. Clark will doubtless re-
cover.
, 1862-06-07

SHOOTING AFFRAY.-We are informed by Mr..
J. Ryan, who recently returned from Florence
that on the 2Sth ult., at Slate Creek, two men
named Winters alias Brocky, and John DAILY,
got into dispute over game of cards, in which
BrOcky shot DAILY through the heart. Brocky
made bis escape
, 1862-06-07

TIE ELECTION IN OREGoN.-We have returns
from the precincts east of the Cascades Wal
Ia Walls precinct gave Democratic majority Of
2,-26 Dem. to "a Union /; Umatilla Precinct
gave about $50 majority for the Union ticket.
LThe volunteers in Col. Cornelius command-on
their way to Fort Walla Wsa-voted at this pre-
o'nct.] Grand Ronde precinct gave a majority
Of II to the Union ticket,-31 Union to 20 Dem
oeratic. Deschuttes precinct gave majority of
% to the Union ticket,-36 Union to l3 Dem
, 1862-06-07

FAST STAGING.-Messrs Thatcher & Hickey
advertise to run a semi-weekly line Of Concord
coaches from this city to Lewiston, through in
thirty hours. The distance is eighty-ive miles
If they make it in this time, it will equal Califor
MIA staging in her palmiest days They have
6rst-class stock, and we have no doubt will run a
"fast" line.
, 1862-06-07

ENLARGEMENT OF THE STATEsMAN.-In order
to give more reading matter in the columns of
the STATESMAN, as well as to accommodate our
advertising patrons we have made arrangements
to enlarge it to the Size of the largest weekly
publication north of San Francisco. This will be
done 80 soon as our material arrives-probaby
in two weeks.
, 1862-06-07

GOODS FOR POWDER RIvER.-One or two par
ties have left this city during the week with goods,
provisions, &C., for the Powder river market. This
city is now the nearest point of supply for these
mines, and the only thing required to secure the
permanent trade of that place is the opening of
the direct trail and wagon road from here through
the Grand Ronde valley to Powder river. We
call the attention of all citizens interested in the
permanent prosperity of this city, to the call in
another column of to-day's issue for a public
meeting to be held in the court house this even
ing, to consider the proprety of opening the road
ard to devise means therefor. We need advance
no argument by way of enforcing the Importance
of this proposition. 1t is apparent to every bus-
ness man in the city, which fact is attesed by the
numerous names appended to the call. We
trust there may be a full meeting and that prompt
action may be taken in the matter.
, 1862-06-07

NEW FIGURING MILL.-We are informed that
Mr.. A. H. Reynolds, an old resident Of this val
ley, designs building a Touring mill, to be situa-
ted on his place about mile and half from this
city. 1t will be completed during the present
season in time for the fall crops.
, 1862-06-07

WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
our old patrons and the public of Oregon and
Washington Territory generally that after two years
business we have established trade and facilities for
importing our line of goods that defes competition
also, that we are selling goods in our line at San
Francisco Prices, and guaranteeing them to be
genuine; our stock being all times subject to the
strictest chemical analyzation.
, 1862-06-07

PERsoNAL.-We are pleased to notice the ar
rival of our rold friend DR.. Watkins. from Port
land, who comes up as surgeon of the Oregon
regiment
, 1862-06-07

EMIGRATION FROM YREKA.-The advance trains
of the emigration from Yreka, qua Klamath lake.
arrived in this city during the fore part of the
week, and others are now coming in every day
Those who started in April report hard trip, and
come in but little in advance of those who started
a month later. Many of the earlier trains lost
most of their animals in the mountains by Starya.
ton. In crossing the mountains they we're COM
PEELED to shovel out the snow from the trail The
trail across the klamath marsh, which is practic-
able in summer time, they found impracticable,
and were obliged to cut road around it. They
came in by way Of the head Of Deschuttes thence
to Warm Springs Reservation. The route is
practicable for pack animals, at the proper season
say from the 18th Of May-but it is impossible to
bring wagons over it. Some Of the parties with
whom We have conversed express the opinion that
in the summer season the trip can be made from
here to Yreka by this trail in eighteen days.
, 1862-06-07
Public Meeting.

We, the undersigned, believing that the interests of
this city and the Walla Wala valley in general de-
mand the opening of the direct road leading from here
to Powder river, Ua the Grand Ronde valley call upon
all interested to assemble with us, in pubic meeting
at the Court House, in this city, Saturday evening"
June 7th 1862, TO take into consideration the matter
of devising ways and for the opening of said
road.
Brooks & Cranston, John L. Young,
W. Phillips, Frank Carped,
Howard Hardy, Thos. l.. Payne
Kyger & Reese, l.. Stone,
K. H. James, j. / Cracv,
E. Meyer, b. N Sexton,
j. Hellmuth e. Jacobs & Co..
Baldwin & Whitman, James Buckley,
J. C. Levy, Harry A. Price,
Schwabacker Bros. & Co., Brown, Bros. & Co.,
B. Relss, w. P. Adams,
Edw. H. Morony, E. Breichtel,
JAS McAulitf, G. P. Ward,
G. W. Wardman, w. A. Ball,
E. w. Macken. Brand & Haas,
G. Bagloase, Geo. McCully,
John Phillips, Mayer & Co.,
Chas N. Mullan, Lazarus ~ Bro.
H. b. Lane. J. w. Dickinson,
Kohhauff 81 Guichard l.. c. Kinney,
~ l.. Frank 81 Co. Z. f. Kelly,
VIM. Derrick, Northrop & Rees,
Eugene Crowne, j. l.. Shute,
Charles Herzoy, j. G. lsaIcs,
I. HottS, E. NJ. Reed
Green, Heath Allen, Brown & Dusenbery.
, 1862-06-07

In and about Florence times are brisk, and
money plenty. The paying mining ground is
pretty well claimed up, and new discoveries un-
frequent There is not supply of merchandise
adequate to the wants of miners, and prices are
going down slowly.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
SAINT PAUL. FRIDAY. APRIL 25 1862,

grant with quiet domestic virtues, the work
place of mothers and daughters in the days
when mothers and daughters worked-the
centre of the family circle when the day was
done and father and the boys gathered
around the evening table to read or cipher,
or play game, or mend this or that which
had beer broken on the farm; when ueighbors
dropped quietly in and were welcome to
the chimney corner, and cider and apples
closed the visit when even lovers must sit
in the kitchen and with the family, except
on Sundays. / do not believe in every
thing that is old, but | do believe we bave
made no gain in surrendering those homely
ways and virtues which clustered about that
now dishonored place. The kitchen was
the home in those golden days ere its sacred
economies were handed over to the waste
full mercies ofignorant domestics and though
there were no modern labor saving applian.
ces, yet because the labor was not bought,
but each had his post aud duty, the home
went on more wisely and happily than now.
The kitchen was then the blessing OF the
house. Now it is too frequently the curse,
and the troubles it entails have much to do
with this rapid filling up of the hotels and
lodging houses by those who rather fly from
than seek to remedy the evil. Perhaps, as
society is, we cannot reinstall the kitchen.
I do not believe the idea would be very
palatabIe to those who associate the place
with the stupidity of Irish cooks, or regard
the toll as disgrace to their position, or
as ipjuring the complexion and marring
the delicacy of the hand. The kitchen was
the sanc;um of the home, and homes have
gained nothing by deserting it.
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of the Journal of Commerce.

Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April IL, 1862
We have intelligence today that our forces,
under General Mitchell, have taken Hunts
Vile, Alabama. AS I know the place we'll
1 will give you few particulars. 1t is To-
Gated in billy country, twelve miles from
the Tennessee river, on the North, and con.
tains about three thousand inhabitants, 1t
contains many handsome residences and is
the seat of two institutions of learning, the
Bascom Institute, and Presbyterian College.
Owing to its healthy location, it has be-
come the summer residence of wealthy fam
lilies from Mobile and New Orleans; and to
give an idea of its wealth for country
village, it may be mentioned that twenty OF
its leading families can count up the pretty
sum of six or eight millions of dollars.
The country around the place is very pro-
ductive, the plantations numerous and large,
and the negro population extensive. On
the score of intelligence, there is not q
class of citizens in the South, who sur
pass the inhabitants of the really very
charming town of Huntsville. The place
on the Tennessee which answers as ite port
[ is called Wbitesburg.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
A Righteous War.

From Sermon by Rev. Orvile Dewey, D. D.
see here great government, with Pc
culiar, popular, and what is to US pre-
cious title to sovereignty, which the rude
hand of rebellion would pluck down, and
cover with approbrium, and blight with
failure, before the eyes of all the world.
see great Republic, seated on the shores
of a new world spreading from the Allan.
tic to the Pacific Sea built up in the af-
fections of till lately thirty millions OF
people the pride and hope of its loyal sub
jects; the resort and refuge of multitudes
from the old world and unexampled pross
perity in itself, and dwelling in peace and
honor with all nations. And now, for no
ustifying cause for an interest in slavery,
for the qualification of passions that have
sprnng from that bitter root violent hand
is raised to strike at this great image of
public authority, to break it in pieces, and
to scatter it in the dust. 1t is truly said
that Democracy is on its trial in this
crisis. Has it nurtured ip US taintheart-
edness, recklessness, love of ease and
propriety that is willing to let this mighty
Fabric 60 to wreck and ruin? For one I
answer, No. Shall the aristocracies of the
old world pass by, waggiDg their heads in
scorn and saying Aha! ye could boast of
your great Republic, but ye cannot fight
for it." Shall all noble lovers of liberty in
the world hang their heads in shame for US
and say "Alas for our hopes and the
hopes of mankind p And again answer,
No.
And l say no, not in pride or passion,
not in any hatred of the South, but under
the most solemn sense of duty. To US this
is holy war. Religion-in the highest
and widest view of it commands US to do
what we are doing. We have trust COM
mitted to us, as we believe, by the Ip6nile
authority, and it is in fealty to God, and
fidelity to man, that we feel bound to keep
it. We cannot yield up lawful sovereignty,
the national domain and honor, and the
peace and welfare OF unborn generations, to
the reckless assault that is made upon
them. We believe that we should displease
the just God if we did so. We believe that
ours is righteous cause, and, 1 repeat, a
holy war. And if the Southern people say,
we, too, have conscience, be it so, all men
l suppose have conscience of some kind.
The question is, whose is the right con-
science The rebel conscience or the loyal
conscience? They may say, why cannot
you yield to US? We say, why cannot
you yield to us? The question is who
ought to yield. Upon this question we
have no doubt. If upon this question
there must be an awful and bloody conflict,
if conscience on either side can find no other
solution, God pity us, and God defend the
right
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25

1t is long time since we have heard
anything from this "gentleman of inteli-
gence," until our eyes met the following in
the Chatfield Democrat
MAJOR HADLEY.-We learn, privately,
from Nashville, Tennessee, that Major
Hadley. OF the Third Regiment, has been
compelled to resign his commission or be
dismissed from the service, be having prov
ed himself to be entirely incompetent for a
high private. The Major passed through
this place with bis family few days since
on his way home. he did not say anything
however, about having resigned, but said
he was absent on furlougb, which he exhib-
tied, the same being signed by Captain
Somebody, Provost Marshal of Louisville
He had his celebrated sword from the man
ufactory Of "E Pluribus Unum," with him
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
Home, the Residence.

From the Monthly Religious Magazine.
No man needs to own his own house more
than the hard working man of moderate
means. No one more needs this and every
influence oi home. One reason assigned
for the want of thrift, the low pleasures of
the working man, is the character of the
place be lives in, and the fact that the bar,
or saloon, or billiard room will give him
cleanliness and comfort his home lacks. 1t
will very soon break down the ambition of
an otherwise very worthy man, if be finds
his home wanting in the cheaper means or
appearance of comfort which the places of
resort afford, d,-means or appearances which
q large class OF tenements do not afford. His
own home,-smali, bat speaking within and
without OF bis care and love,-tbat is the
great safeguard of the man and the family of
moderate means. 10 it, when the day is
gone, be goes with joy upon it and its COM
forts he willingly lays out portion of his
wages. 1t smiles, iu return, as another
mans house Iever can; it rebukes, in his
wandering, only as his own home could. 1t
is an anchor by which he holds amid the
tossing temptations of life, place of ref
uge and OF love, whose charms, whose solid,
pure delights, prevail agains! all that offers
or appetite suggests.
Another reason which should operate
strongly in favor of every mans owning his
house is, that SO only can any thing like
permanence of residence be secured. This
want of permanence is one of the crying
sins of the age. 1t prevents the local at
tachment which is one of the strongest and
purest sentiments.ot the human breast. No
wandering horde of the desart is more rest
less, unsettled than we. We strike our
tents, and fit at any moment, the great am
bltion OF soma seeming to be to see how
many houses they can reside in. All this
is fatal to the home. 1t breaks up any
thing like continuity of life it prevents
iXedness OF habit, and so fxedness Of pur-
pose: You are always getting ready to
live in new place, never living. Your
past is shifting scene, and your future on
ly prospective change. 1t makes life hunt
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In order to secure as far as possible
the decent interment OF those who have
fallen or may fall in battle, it is made the
duty of commanding generals to lay off lots
OF ground in some suitable spot near every
battle field. so soon as it may be in their
power, and to cause the remains of those
killed to be inferred, with head boards to
the graves, bearing the numbers, and, when
practicable, the names of the persons hurried
in them. A register Of each burial ground
will be preserved, in which will be noted
the marks corresponding with the head
boards.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
Death of HI. ID. Bristol, Esq.

Our people were shocked yesterday at the
melancholy intelligence of the death of our
former townsman II. D. Bristol, Esq. The
sad news was co nveyed here by letter
from the Bon. James Oavanaugh. Mr.. b.
died at Central City, Colorado Territory,
on the Sd day of the present month of In
flamatory Rheumatism, after an illness of
two or three days. Mr.. B. leaves a vile
and one child in this place, who has the
sympathy of the many friends of her noble
and generous hearted acknowledgement
Democrat.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
VOL. XIII.-NO. 45
[oRIGINAL.
WHAT THE PICKET SAID.

A Yankee picket, looking out
For enemy or stranger,
Made prisoner of a rebel scout
Who stumbled into danger.
The latter yielded up his sword,
The former then parolled him.
They then upon the war conferred,
And this is what Yank. told him -
"You folks have all been raving mad;
You have, swow, by thunder
And precious soon you'll all be glad
Ireckon, to knock under.
Your Uncle Samuel's dauder's riz
You've riled him, assure ye;
And now the old gents purpose is
Either to kill or cure ye.
GOOD gracious! what an all fred lot
OF blind and stupid cusses,
To lose the hull O. what you'd got,
In bringing on these muses.
You've billed pretty kettle O. fish,
With your tarnation folly;
Fore long, calculate, you'll wish
SeCeSu 10 u-''N, NY SoHy
"What allied you, that you weren't content
With your preponderation?
You held the reins of Government,
The whp.hand of the nation.
The Senate, Bench, and Cabinet,
Each place of trust or profit
All these were yours now you're shet
Of them, what good came of ?
"This talk of sectional affronts,'
This gas of rights invaded
Won't pass the devils cried so once,
And you cry just as they did!
The North had never interfered
Between the slave and master;
How that was fixed it never cared
A Tennessee shinplaster.
"But since you showed the cloven hoof.
And pulled the murderous trigger,
Don't fancy We shall stand aloof
By reason of the nigger s.
We're bound to see this matter through,
And as for your black chattels,
Why, local laws must yield unto
The sterner law of battles.
"This wars bloody business, but
Well hunt Confederate Treason,
Until the Union sword has cut
Its diabolic weason.
You forced the issue on US, and
Well show, what you've forgotten,
The pillars of the world don't stand
On Niggers or on Cotton"
Just then the Sergeant, coming up,
Relieved him from his station;
Which put. of course. sudden stop
To that confabulation -
But still bis rough speech hit the curse
That so long has bestrode us,
And we might act great deal worse
Than thro' his simple modus.
CLARENCE BUTLER.
Saint Paul, April 18th, 1862.
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