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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-16
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To the Associated Press North
HUDSON, No, august 10.-Colonel Mcneil
again overlook PoIter's ~gueTilias at Stockton,
in the northern part Of Macon county, and, AFTER
another sharp fght, routed them, killing and
wounding 4 large number, and capturing many
horses. The rebels were scattered in all direc-
tons. Some Of tha prisoners captured have
taken the oath end given bonds.
The following additional particulars Of tie
fight between Colonel 3fcNeiFs command and
PoFter's guerrillas, al Kifksville some days since.
have been received here Oae hundred and
.tweniy-sight dead rebels were found on the fed
and buried Their entire loss could not have
been less than three hundred.
Il Is estimated on reliable authority that fully
two thousand Of Portsr's gang have deserted
him, and are scattered, several hundred Of them
being prisoners. The balaucs OF his force, which
was originally three Thousand, are rapidly being
pursued by Colonel MeNeirs troops, in four col
unns.
The Federal loss was eight killed and twenty
FIVE wounded.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-16


The BL0CKADE.-Iti is stated By the Northern
press that Earl Russell having been memorialized
by q number of merchants and ship owners Of
Liverpool relative to alleged violations of inter
national law By Federal cruisers. Nr. Laysrd
replied in effect justifying the proceedings Of The
cruisers. and condemned the practice Of sending
vessels to the Bahamas for the purpose OF run
ning the blockade. He also recommends strict
attention TO the Qaeen's neutrality proclamation.
ATrEMPTtD EscAPE-Lass night two prs
oners. centred in The gnsrd house at this place,
very nearly succeeded in freeing themselves
from the clutches Of the military law Bat
their designs were fortunately and sing1lsrly
frustrated. It CHANGED that = party of gentle
zen were standing near DTane's drug store, and
hearing a somewhat singular noise in the trees
above them, concluded that there must be game
Of some sort aloft. The darkness, however,
prevented their making any discoveries until
Nr. De Hart obtained a rife and prepared to
Gre. ThereupOn a Ysnkee, ike the celebrated
'coon in the story Of Capt Scott, came down, and
delivered himself up. Further investigation
resulted il freeing a negro. The two fugitves-
niger and abOitionist, par mobile 5ratrum-
we're conveyed to their old quarters, where, after
some difficulty, it was sseertained that a hole
bsd been cut in the roof aud covered with 5
punuy sack, through which the whole possee Of
Yankees and negroes designed escaping.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-16

HTThe Paris Patris says that the Unissd
States Government has offered to purchase the
province Of Sonora for 5000, 000
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-16

RGenegal cadwalleder, Of PhiiadsIphia, has
been visiting General Grant, at Corinth. The
object Of the tip has not transpred.
, 1862-06-07
mrs. Stoves Description of Rome.


One of the new chapters of Mrs. Stoves Gag
nes of Sorrento" contains the following beautiful
description of Rome:
A vision rises upon us from the land of shad-
ows. We see a wide plain, miles and miles in
extea rolling in soft billows of green, and girded
on al sides by blue mountains, whose silver crests
gleamngin the setting sunlight tell that the win
ter still fingers on their tops though spring has
decked all the plain. So silent, so lonely, so fair,
is the waving expanse, with its guardian noun
tains, it might be some wild solitude, an American
prailss, or Astatic steppe, but that in the midst
thereof, on some pillows of rolling land, we dis
cem a city, sombre, quaint and od-a city of
dreams and mysteries-a city of the living and
the dead. And this is Rome-weird, wonderful,
ancient, mighty Rome-mighty once by physical
force and grandeur, mightier now in physical de-
cadence and weakness, by the spell of mortal po-
tent enchantment.
AS the sun is moving westward the whole air
around becomes flooded with luminousness
which seems to transfuse itself with pervadng
presence through every part of the city, and max
ing all its ruinous and mossy age bright and liv-
ing. The air shivers with the silver vibrations Of
hundreds of bells, aad the evening glory goes up
and down, soft footed and angelic, transfguring
all things. The broken columns of the Forum
seem to swim in golden mist, and luminous floods
fill the Coliseum as it stands with its thousand
arches looking out into the city like so many
sightless eye holes in the skull of the past The
tender light pours up streets dark and ill-paved-
into noisome and cavernous dens called houses,
where the peasantry of to-day vegetate in subser-
vience. 1t Itilluminates many dingy courtyard,
where the moss is green on the walls and gurg-
ling fountains fall into quaint old ulptured ba-
sins. 1t lights up the gorgeous palaces of Romes
modern princes, built with stones wrenched from
ancient ruins. 1t streams through a wilderness of
churches, each with its tolling prayer-bell, and
steals through painted windows into the dazzling
confusion of pictured and gilded glores that gilt
ter and CLEAN from roof and wall within. And it
goes, too, across the Tiber up the filthy and moi
some Ghetto. Here, hemmed in by ghostly su-
perstitons the sons of Israel are growing up with
out vital day, like wan white plants in cellars !;
and the black, mournful obeisks of the expresses
in the villas around, it touches with solemn go-
ry. The castle of st. Angelo looks like great,
translucent luminous orb, and the statues of saints
and apostles on the top of st. John Lateran glow
as if made of living fire, and seem to stretch out
gorifed hands of welcome to the pilgrims that
are approaching the Holy City across the soft
palpitathg sea of green that lies stretched like
misty veil around it.
, 1862-06-07
a information Wantedg

How often the above heading appears to para
graphs in California newspapers, enquirng for
some friend, son, brother, husband or father,
who years ago, perhaps left home and loving
friends in search of gold For awhile punctual
correspondence was kept up with his friends far
away across the blue ocean or wide desert plains.
Suddenly that correspondence ceases, and the
anxously looked for missive fails to arrive hearts
grow weary waiting, and eyes grow dim with
watching nervously the ear listens to catch the
familiar sound of the returning footsteps of the
wanderer- but all to no purpose. Letters of in
quiry are forwarded to the place from where the
absent one was last heard, to learn his where
abouts; the letter is published under the head of
Information Wanted" Sometimes the infor-
nation desired is received but too often the para
graph isread, passed over and forgotten, as
thing of so frequent occurrence that none give it
but passing notice, and hearts are still left to
mourn, and watchers still vainly wait for tidings
of the lost one.
Where are the thousands who thus disappear?
Some have gone to the new fields of reported
wealth in search of fortune, and have laid down
to die among strangers in a strange land. Some
have fell by the hand of violence and no obscure
mound marks their last resting place Some have
fallen prey to disease, and we have read the ac-
count of strangers bural-a grave over which
no fri ndly tear was shed and in the business stir
of life, it too, was soon forgotten. How often is
recorded in the daily and weekly journals "body
found !" coroner's inquest and hasty deposite of
once manly form, in the embrace of its mother
EARTH The bones of many lost one lie bleached
on hill and plain, in ravine and mountain gorge
From Fraser river to Lower California and Mexi-
co, they are scattered, never to be gathered to-
gether until the trump of the Archangel shall wake
their sleeping dust.
"Information Wanted !" Go ask the winds
where the loved ones are lying.
Information Wanted !" Go ask the floods
that have swallowed them up, or the hills and val
leys that gave them last resting place.
"Information Wanted !" Go search the sex
tom records, and hunt his grave in the Potters
field. He sought for gold and found grave he
went forth buoyant with the inspiration of bright
hopes, and despair gnawed his heartstrings asun-
der. To win the golden smiles of Fortune, he
staked his life, and Death raked up the prize as
stake at the bank-Red Buff Independent.
, 1862-06-07
Our Enemies have Fallen.

Our enemies have fallen, have fallen; the seed,
The little seed they laughed at in the dark,
Has risen and cleft the soil and grown bulk
OF spaness girth that lays every side
A thousand arms and rushes to the sun.
Our enemies have fallen, have fallen; they came
The leaves were wet with women's tears they heard
A noise of songs they would not understand
They marked it with the red cross to the fall,
And would have strown it, but are fallen themselves
Our enemies have fallen, have fallen they struck
With their own blows they hurt themselves knew
There dwet an iron nature in the grain;
The glittering ak was broken in their arms,
Their arms were shattered to the shoulder blade.
Our enemies have fallen; hut this shall grow
A night of summer from the heat, a breadth
Ofautumn, dropping fruits of power; and rolled
With music in the growing breeze of time,
The tops sidll strike from st,r to star the fangs
Shall move the strong bases of the world"
, 1862-06-07

OVER BATHNG.-If fish is deprived of its
scales, it will be chilled to death and reasoning
analogically and knowing, too, that the human
skin scales are destroyed by the alkali of the
soap, man may wash himself too much-may
actually wash away the scales of his body, leaving
the pores so unprotected against heat and cold
and obstructons, that death will inevitably ensue
indeed, physiological research proves that if
third Of the skin is removed from the body BY
scaldng or otherwise, fatal termination is una
vodable. Observant persons know how soon the
skin becomes pale, shriveed and tender, even on
the harder hands, if kept great deal in cold wa
ter. These suggestive considerations for those
who believe that continued water sloshings are in
dispensable to health and longevity.-H $ Jour
nal of Health.
, 1862-06-07

SPooER has recently enriched his museum with
a lock of hair from the head of steamboat naviga-
ton; also blush from the face of the earth, aud
ten yards of equinoctial line.
, 1862-06-07
Watch Repairing.

TTNHE subscriber would inform the citizens CR
Of Walla Walla and vicinity that any kLIA
work entrusted to his care Through the ex- ~S-4S
pressl will receive his personal attention From his
long experience in the business, he is enabled to per
form it in manner unsurpassed IN the State.
Charges as low as elsewhere, and all work war
ranted
He is also prepared to fiji any orders in the Watch
and Jewelry Business, with dispatch. at the lowest
possible prices. JACOB COHEN.
Portland Oregon, April 7. 1852. [l0m6
, 1862-06-07

LIKE bell that's rung for fire; like ceaseless
auction crier like, oft times, a graceless liar
misunderstanding tattleis go. Stopping you with
ouaking fear, whispering, as you lend an ear
.'mercy on US, did you hear P-Hannah TOmpkin's
got a-beau :"
, 1862-06-07

If old Time were to exchange his hour-glass for
, wiue-glass we should have high Time.
, 1862-06-07
EMPIRE RESTAURANT.

MAIN STREET, DALLES, OREGON OPPOSITE
wi the Express office-where the substantial ele-
ments of life will be served up at all times.
Price of Board, seven dollars per week,
Single Meals, itty cents,
Lodging. fifty cents.
N. B-I will always have on hand supply of mat
trasses where miners sleep on therown blankets.
lv THOS. SMITH. Proprietor.
, 1862-06-07
WHAT CHEER HOUSE.

T1RONT STREET, Portland, Oregon-M. 'Connor
l. Proprietor.
BOARD REDUCED.
Board per week s. 90. Board per day, 81 90.
Board and Lodging per week Sc so to 90.
Single meals, SOC. Lodging. SOC.
So The What Cheer House Wagon will be on the
wharf to convey passengers and baggage free Of
charge. Agood safe for keeping valuables.
This house is conducted on temperance principles.
, 1862-06-07

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUDGEs-Xenophon
tells this little but very instructive story con-
cernng young Cyrus:
His governor, the better to make him under
stand the nature ofjustce put this case to him;
"You see there" says he to Cyrus, "two boys
playing of different stature the lesser of them
has very long coat and the bigger very short
one; now, if you were judge, how would you dis
pose of these two garments ?"
Cyrus Immediately, and with very good reason,
as he thought, passeth the sudden sentence, "That
the taller should have the longer garment and he
that of lower stature the shorter, because this
certainly was fttest for them both"
Upon which the governor sharply rebukes him
to this purpose, telling him that, if he were to
make two coats for them, he said well but he did
not put the case to him as tailor, but as aiudge,
and as such he had given a very wrong sentence;
for judge ought not to consider what is most fit,
but what is most just-not who would make the
best use of thing, but who had the best right to
it-7Hiotson.
, 1862-06-07

SOME men are like cats. You may stroke the
fir for years the right way, and hear nothing but
purring; but accidentally tread on the tail, and
all memory of former kindness is obliterated.
, 1862-06-07
ELFELT BROS,

MAIN STREET, DALLEs, oREGoN-Dealers
WI in Fancy and Staple Dry. Goods, Cl"thlng'
b It's. Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gents Furnishing goods
and Groceries.
Every steamer supplies us with the best oil the
above description of goods.
All orders, large or small, will be ATTENDED TO
with prOmptness and care. ~
, 1862-06-07
]. r. CARDWE ELL,

ENTIST-Will visit WalIa Walla on profession
~ al business within few weeks. Dehhlte no-
ice of the time will be given. ~
, 1862-06-07

THERE is no policy like politeness; and good
manner is the best thing in the world, either to
get good name or supply the want Of it.
, 1862-06-07
Law and Collection Office.
, eEoRaE J. G. SPARKS
GEORGE g. SPARKS,

TToRNEYS AND. COUNSELORS AT Law
~ Walla Wala, Washington Territory.
will attend all the Courts in Washington and Ore
ron east of the Cascade mountains, and the Supreme
Court of this Territory.
~ Particular attention paid to tile collection OF
debts. and the securing of pre-emption rights
Office on Main street, opposite the Printing office
Dec & 1861 2y
, 1862-06-07

IT is said that some mothers are grown so af-
ectorate, that they give their children chloroform
previous to whipping them.
, 1862-06-07
A Reputation Achieved.

McClellan's name is already household word
in the mouths of the patriotic, but his merits will
not have been duly weighed and his proper posi-
ton assigned him until the close of the war =
Then, his grateful fellow citizens will calmly and
dispassionately review his services and assign to
him that need of credit which is his due. A mere
cursory survey of the field over which the army
operations have extended, sufices to show that
none but gigantic intellect and mind well
stored with military knowledge, could have sue
cessfully coped with the difficulties of position
50 arduoua IS that of the Commander,in-Chief-
Gen. Scott had long since noted the capabilities
of the rising hero and only few days since, Gen.
Halleck eulogized him as by far the most compe-
tent and sIillful of all our military leaders. Gen.
Halleck is himself no mean authority, and is re-
garded by his own most enthusiastic admirers,
even now, as the leading man in the service. Tes-
timonials of nature which involve the profess
ional judgment of the critic never given unless
they are deserved, and the army's favorte may
therefore consider himself booked for prominent
niche in the temple of fame. Few leaders have
set out under such favorable auspices, or with sim
liar opportunities for the attainment of personal
distinction and "Mac" has been very careful of
his reputation, not permitting even the most triv-
ial movement to be ventured upon until every
strategic resource called for by the occasion had
been exhausted He had, in his own language,
drawn fguratve anaconda around the strong
holds of Secession, by the gradual tightening of
whose folds he proceeded to crush the Kissing hy-
dra of rebellion. To fail would have been disas-
trous not only to himself but to the sacred cause
which he was engaged The existence of the ma
ton depended, therefore, so to speak, upon this
one youthful leader whom the venerable Lieuten-
ant-General of our armies had designated as the
fittest person upon whom his mantle could fall.
Of course, Mcclellan has his enemies-what truly
great man has not? But all their Vaccinations
have failed to inure him in the esteem of the Gov
ernment or the people, and he is to-day the idol
of that army which he is leading-all his arrange
ments at last fully pcrfected-by rapid strides to
victory. ry.-Herald and Mirror
, 1862-06-07
r. HAMIL1 ON
W. PHILLIPS,
7 w. COOK

Z MANUFACTURES and Wholesale and . Retail Retail
NI Dealer in tents, Awnings, Wagon Covers
Ceilings and Sacks Portland Oregon.
Tents, Awnings, and Wagon covers Inaue "
Flour and Grain Sacks constantly on hand and
made to order ...os 20
orders from a distance promptly attended To-
All orders made returnable by the nrst ooi'e9
, 1862-06-07

My faculty, surely, is the more ancient. for the
killing of Abel by Cain was the first criminal case,
said lawyer to medical friend. "Sure enough
replied the doctor, "but before that happened, a
rib was taken out of Adams side, and that consti-
tuted the first surgical operation"
, 1862-06-07
Tbe Wasbingtnn Statesman
rs issued every SATURDAY morning-Publication
il Office Main Street. Waila " ALA
NORTHROP and r R. REEFS,
Editors and Propretors.
TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.


Six months. 4 ~ ~
Single copies. 20
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
One square (ten lines less) four insertions Sc Oh
For each additional insertion. n...-...,........ "
One square per year. 49, &C.. ~ "
Yearly advertisements of SOS or more, pr 50 10 D.
Half yearly, per square IL VI
- All advertisements of half column or more
will he inserted by special contract
rzF- Advertisements, to ensure insertion, must be
handed in as early ~ Thursday, and the number OF
insertions desired should be noted on the margin,
otherwise they will he continued until forbidden
WASHINGTON STATESMAN
monk GARD. AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE
D-Main street, Waa Walla.
The prDpretors beg leave to announce to the
peope of Walla Walla and vicinity. that they have
n varied and complete assortment OF PLAIN and
ORVANENTAL JOB AND CARD TYPES, which
make their facilities for executing all klndsoi plh
and ornamental printing unsurpassed by any once
in the Territory All ord rs for any of the follow
ing named descriptions of printing Will be attended
to promptly and executed in the neatest style
BOOKS, BLANK CHECKS
PAMHPHLETs, NOTES OF HAND
HANDBlLLS, OtDEk oOOha'
Rail TIcKErs STEAMBO'T BILLS
C,y,ur, r,,ps SrEAMBO' T CARDS,
INVITATIONS, BILLS "F hADlN''
BUSINESS CARDS, jERriFoArEsi
BILLHEADS, ShoM plLl1''
CONCERT BILLS, CHECK BOOKS
PROGRAMMES, BLK l'EcE,PTs'
ADDRESS CARDS, DRAFTS,
BtANKs OF ALL KINDS, &c, &c, &c.
tas- Job Work must be paid for before 1t is ta-
ken from the office.
, 1862-06-07
HUMAsON & ODELL,

o. HUMAsON. JAS. A oDELL.
A TTORNIES AND COUNSELORS AT LAW,
"A Dales. Oregon.
i-rompt attention given to collections and other
business placed in their hands,
March 20, 1862. l5ly
, 1862-06-07

HORACE VERNET AND THE CoNNoIssEUR.-Thi
great master was once employed to paint land
scape, with a cave ard st. Jerome in it, He ac-
cordingly painted the landscape, with st jerome
at the entrance of the cave. When he delivered
the picture, the purchaser, who understood moth
ing of the prospective, said, "The landscape and
the cave are well enough. but St. Jerome is not in
the cave" 81 understand you,' replied Yernet
81 will alter it." He therefore took the painting
and made the shade darker, so that the saint
seemed to sit further in. The buyer took the
painting, but it again appeared to him that the
saint was not in the cave. Vernet then painted
out the figure and gave it to his customer, who
seemed perfectly satisfied Whenever he saw
strangers, to whom he showed the picture, he
said, "Here you see picture by Vernet, with St.
Jerome in the cave But we cannot see the
saint, replied the visitors. Excuse me, gentle
men" answered the possessor, she is there for
have seen him stand at the entrance and after
wards further back, and am therefore quite sure
that he is in it."
, 1862-06-07

THE solar system has large family, but only
one sun,
, 1862-06-07
DR. j. A. MULLAN,

EORMERI.Y Resident Physician at Blackwell
Il Island Prison. n. Y, and at the Baltimore
nms house Nd-has located IN Walla Walla, ana
respectfully tenders his services to the community
in the practice of Medicine and Surgery so
Office on Main street. i'm Court Bmldlng. III
, 1862-06-07
cannihaliam in E1rope.

Glabers account of the consequences of the
famine in Europe of the year 1888, is strange and
terrific The memory, says he, recoils from re-
capituaton of all the horrors of that deplorable
epoch. Alas can or ought we to believe it !? The
fury of the famine generated acts of atrocity that
are rare in history To prolong life, men fed up
on mems flesh. The traveller on his route was as
sailed, his limbs were torn asunder, roasted and
devoured Some, flying from their homes and
hunger, we're Hospitality received by strangers,
and then their throats cut at night by hosts who
fed upon their guests. Some enticed children
into bypaths, by offering them apples, and then
inundated the innocents to their hunger! In
some places the bodies of the dead were disn-
tered to be eaten. In fine, the delirium of desire
to feed on human flesh arose to such a height that
animals were more safe than men from the
saults of the cannibals, who, once tasting of hu-
man flesh, seemed to devote their appettes TO
that particular species of food. At Tournay, a
wretch had the audacity to offer in the open mark
ct cooked human flesh, and when charged with
the crime, he did not seek even to deny it. He
was choked and his body committed TO the flames
Another person in the same place went at night
to the spot where the cooked human flesh had
been buried he ate it, was convicted of the fact,
and his body also burned. At three miles from
Macon, and in the forests of Chatenay, wretch
constructed a cabin not far from an isolated church
devoted to St. John. This monster murdered ev-
cry traveller that entered his house. A man with
his wife came there one day, to seek hospitality,
and to rest for few moments In looking about
the place, the man saw in every corner of the cab
in the heads of men, women and children. He
sought to withdraw, and his host to retain him.
Fear gave the traveller strength, and he effected,
with his wife, his escape, and fastened to Macon.
He gave an account of this frightfu discovery to
Count Ohio and the nhal iiants. large body
of men were instantly despatched. They buried
to the place, and there they found the monster in
his lair, ard along with him the heads of forty
eight human beings that he had murdered, and
whose flesh he had devoured. They carried him
to town, tied him to a stake in the cellar, and
then burned him alive. We were ourselves pres
ent, and aiding in his execution.
, 1862-06-07
DR.. |. H. HARRIS,

szy- Job Work must be paid for before it is ia
ken from the office.