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The Portland daily press., 1863-09-08

Prepared and sold by ID. HOWARD, Randolph,
Mass. to whom all letters of enquiry should be ad-
dressed Forsal in Portland by II. H. HA Y, Drug
gtst, junction Free and Middle streets, General
Agent for Mainland by dealers in medicine gen.
orally. Price 81 per bottle; 8 bottles for s5
iva eod3m
The Portland daily press., 1863-09-08

HIGHLY IMPORTANT TESTIMONY By LADY
A Cancer, deemed iRcurdble by Eminent Physicians
Entirely Remored by the Syrup.
The Portland daily press., 1863-09-08

ry-Applicationsforwardedando OPEN PoLIcIE
The Portland daily press., 1863-09-08

The fot,osing Letter, 'rhich take from the Boston
Journal Of Oct. p, furnishes Additional Testimo-
ny IN fdror Of this Great Specific.
, 1863-01-24

At that time Bloody Island, in the Mississippi,
nearly opposite ST. Louis was the universal field
for all affairs of honor. The seconds met to ar
range the terms of meeting the place and time
were agreed 2Pon readily; but when the weapons
were named old Gen. Whiteside was utterly aston.
ished. Mr.. Lincoln, having the choice CT weapons,
selected long cavalry swords, the two principals
10 be placed opposite to each other; that between
the combatants there should be erected rail bar
rier four feet and a half high, and all blows be
exchanged over this barrier, each party, of course
to be at liberty to approach as near the barrier
or keep as distant from it as he might choose but
not to jump over or 60 around il.
These extraordinary terms were at first indig-
nantly rejected, and tBeir proposal was denounced
as cowardice but Mr.. Laroln would offer no
others, and Mr.. Shields was forced either to ac-
cept them, or go without fight He chose the
former, and the parties all proceeded to Bloody
Island, where, just as they were about to engage
in the duel, and after the fence had been erected
friends interceded, and the actual fight was pre-
vented.
This was Mr.. Lincoln's first known experience
as a poet, and his most intimate friends have not
heard of his engaging in the business since though
it is said in that affair he assured his friends that
he placed great reliance on rail fence. How
that reliance has been proved to be well founded
the last Presidential campaign has served to show
Chicago Post.
, 1863-01-24

THE SENIPER FAMILY.-If wives would have
their husbands keep good hours, they should not
only look inviting themselves, but teach their
households to follow their example. If anything
will drive man to melodeons and distilled spir-
its, it is an untidy house Mrs Semper is a we'll
meaning woman, but she lacks energy. Her
house is always in state of confusion. The
chairs are converted into horses, to enable Mas
ter Robert to obtain knowledge of equestrian
ism. The coal-scuule should be kept on the
hearth; but as Master Semper insists upon max
ing Wagon of it, it follows that the front carpet
is kept the whole time about knee-deep in an
thracite. Mr.. Semper "a model husband) tries
to bear up under these difficulties, but is unequal
to the task. The other day Semper got up des-
perate and went fishing. The last seen of him
he was heading towards the Wissahickou, in com
pany with bamboo pole and brandy bottle
Whether he will ever turn up again remains to
be seen. Ladies of similar temperament will
please notice and act accordingly. Gentlemen
will also Go well to notice. and, when indulging in
the pleasures of courtship, look out for piece Of
"divnity" among whose virtues neatness and de-
csion stand especially prominent. For our part,
we go in for dry goods that are occasionally cross
and snappish-providing they are systematic AID
methodical-rather than woman of such amia-
bility that she couldn't get up dislike even for
pig-pen.
, 1863-01-24
NO. 6.
a wal from the Rebelg.

The following article is taken from the Charles
ton Courier, paper which was much less anxious
10 enter upon the sea war than its coiemporary,
the Mercury, when the long sown seeds Of rebell-
ion first began to sprout in that hotbed of trea-
son, shows the depth Of misery brought upon the
Southern States
The continuance ofths contest involves increas-
ed suffering. The evils that follow in the train of
this ctlamitous visitation grow more direful with
every day. Other hearts than those now aching
with anxiety and bleeding from bereavement are
rent with grief, and the man who synpathized
with some afflicted one yesterday,to-day weeps Bit
ter tears oTer his own sorrow. The iron is driven
deeper, and our burdens become more and more
heavy And though more than eighteen months
have passed away since the strife was begun, the
end seems more distant than it appeared to be
twelcemonth since. Hope after hope has gone
out in darkness, and expectations we mad fondly
cherished have turned out TO be miserable delu-
sions. So often have we been disappointed and
deceived that our faith rejects every promise and
turns away from every sign. Our foe is as active
and determined, and powerful as ever he was,
and the agent that was to compel foreign nations
10 intervene and put an end to this wicked and in
famous contest has not been potent enough to acl
compsh that end.
We stand alone. Vast hosts are mastering to
repeat in stronger force and with more obstinate
courage the altemps that have been made, and
s.rongholds hitherto unattached will soon have to
bear the most furious nsaughts the enemy, with
his wonderful RESOURCES of ingenuity and material;
is capable of making. To Illustrate his well-con-
ceived plans, to repe these ter ible attacks, we
have to depend entirely upon ourselves. The foe
will do his utmosti military genius and knowl-
edge, the bounless credit Of the Government, the
best mechanical skill mind money, muscle
have all combined to insure success.
And while these tremendous efforts are being
put forth-while cur homes are darkened by the
shadow of deaths angel-wing and our bosom
wruhg with angushZwhiIe we are enduring
grievous privations and hardships, and our sold
iers are almost Naked we stand alone
1t is true foreign tongues mention our name
with respect and admiration. 1t is true our for
ttude and gallantry have received abundant re-
ward in glowing words of praise and in warm.
heartfelt wishes for success. But sympathy and
admiration have afforded no substantial subsist-
ence, and all III ded we brace our nerves for ths
dreadful conflict
, 1863-01-24
JUDGE Holt on slavery.

Ny faith is simple and briefly stated. 1t is this:
For all things that are for the Union-against all
things that are against it. am for protecting
my own body, at every cost and hazard, from the
knife of the assassin. No human institution, no
earthly interest shall ever by me be weighed in
the scales against the life of my country. Least
of all will approach with unsandaled feet or
permit to be thus weighed, an institution the
foundation of whose being-the African slave
trade-the laws of my country have for more
than forty years denounced as a crime worthy of
death-a crime not against any particular form of
civilization, but crime against the very race to
which we belong.
yield to no man in veneration for the Consttu-
tion, or in determination that its blessings shall
be extended to those who respect and obey it,
The door to all these blessings is widely open to
the Southern people, and they are earnestly in
voked by the President to enter it and enjoy
them.
Their institutions and their every interest are in
their own hands, and can be saved not only from
ruin, but from the slightest injury, by the utter
dHce Vi d SlllSlt NOIu-d NOtQ VI Quly anu Ol
honor. But, if in their passionate pursuit of sep
arate empire, and in their blind resentments
against brethren who have never wronged them,
they refuse to speak that wcrd, and prefer to per-
sh themselves rather than that the loyal States
shall escape destruction-be it SO. But, is it not
childish pratte to say that the South can claim to
be at the same moment the protege and the de-
stroyer of the Constitution Does it not require
an audaciy absolutely satanic to insist that the be-
nefcent provisions that halowed instrument shall
be secured to States and people who are hourly
spurning and splitting upon its authority, and who
are leading forward vast armies to overwhem it,
ard with it the homes and hopes of all who are
ralying in its defence? In prosecuting the war,
while exercising the right to injure the enemy, we
may destroy not only ships upon the sea, and for
tresses and cities upon the land, but human life
upon the battlefield! But what institution, what
material interest is more hallo@ed than human
life, and what material interest is there belonging
to the enemy that we are obliged to spare, even
though by doing SO we perish ourselves"
, 1863-01-24
Is California safep

Many people in the Golden State are beginning
to ask anxiously: ais California safe from the
designs of the Rebels?' There is in the State a
population of at least l25,OO able-bodied men
fit for military service, of which it is estimated
that 10000 are secessonists and their sympa-
thizers, opposed to the Government 1t is well
understood that at the commencement of the
war the secessionists planned through secret
leagues and societies, to seize the Notifications in
the harbor, the custom house and the mint in the
city, and navy yard at Mare Island. Nothing
but prompt and efficient action on the part of
loyal men and officers of the Government pre-
vented this from being done. That plan having
failed, the secessionists appear to be trying new
one, which is no less than to establish colony of
Rebel sympathzers in the adjoing Mexican State
of Sonora, so large that they can defy or int;mi-
date the Mexican authority there, and at the same
time watch their chance for striking blow at the
Federal power in California. A man known at
Guymas, where he resides, only as a working Bit
ter secesonists is paving the way for this colony
by establishing trading and mining posts, and has
been for some time past shipping machinery,
stores and other property to the mines owned by
this clique in Sonora, and near the Yaqui river,
and at other points where it is proposed to estab-
lished the colony. 1t is well known that Captain
- now General-Stone fitted out an expedition
some years ago, for the purpose of surveying and
settling the public lands of Sonora and other parts
of Mexico, under contract with the Mexican
Government The expedition did not at that
time succeed.
Danger is supposed to exist from the belief that
France earnestly desires to acquire foothold in
the Pacific ocean, and, if possible somewhere on
the coast of America, where the precious metal is
found in abundance. OF the five regiments of
infantry and one and a half of cavalry raised in
California, but very few of them are in striking
distance of San Francisco and the other thickly
populated portions of California they are mainly
distributed over the entire frontier of the State
from Humboldt to Tucson, while a column of
about two thousand is now in New Mexico, under
Gen. Carleton, and Col. Conner's command is dis
tributed from Fort Churchill to Salt Lake. Thus
the available military strength of the State is re-
duced to q force of few hundred men, to sup
press a sudden uprising of onists on land, or
in case of the advent of foreign foe, upon the
seaboard. The entire harbor defences aloat con-
sst of but single revenue cutter of four or six
guns, and the land forlifca,ions at Alcatraz and
Fort Point.-.N Y World.
, 1863-01-24
Fate of the Great Eeastern.

Though the papers have kept remarkably quiet
about it, there is but little doubt that the Great
Eastern steamship has made her last voyage
On the lst of December she was lying almost a
wreck off Whtestone Point, Long Island.
1t appears that on her last voyage for Europe,
she was brought over By an English pilot who
had such conf fdence in his navigation abilities that
he refused, when off New London, to take on
board an American pilot, asserting that he could
bring her into New York. and that too, through
Hesgate But the sequal has proved, unlortun-
ately for HIM and her owners. that his confidence
was an assumption, for when off Montauk Point
he touched her on a reef of rocks, and stove a
hole in her and knocked portion Of her screw
into fragments. This tremendous hole is on port
side, and near her bottom. When they got her
off it was found she was leaking badly. Immedi-
ate steps were taken to mend the breach; but up
to the present time but little progress has been
made. Golfer dam has been placed over the
hole, and they trying to pump it entirely dry
but the pumps have broken down twice, SO far, in
the attempt. A reporter of the Heard who
visited her, says:
She is greatly lurched, and as she loed on her
side she looked like some terrible sea monster that
had beeu wounded, and the immense hawser-
hole on her bow seemed like hugh eye
fixed in determined stare on all that surrounded
her, calmly awaiting a death blow, or whatever
fate may befall her. AS we neared her it was
distinctly observed that she was badly begged
that is, her frame has been so fearfuy strained
that the entire line from her upper deck from
stem to stern, presents the bow like curvature de-
scribed by hogs back. She was drawing for
ward twenty feet of water, and at her stern
twenty-seven feet, and this with her cargo all dis
charged. II was thought she would prove almost,
if not quite, a total loss.
, 1863-01-24

READING.-Of all the amusements that can
possibly be imagined for working man, after
daily toll, or in the intervals, there is nothing
like reading newspaper or a book. 1t calls for
no bodily exerton, of which the mind has had
enough perhaps too much. 1t relieves his
house Of dullness and sameness. Nay, It accom-
panies him to his next days work, and gives him
something TO think of besides the mechanical
dru1gery of his everyday occupation something
he can enjoy while absent, and look forward to
with pleasure. If I were to pray for a taste
which would stand by me in every variety of cir
cumsta2ees, and be source of happiness and
cheerfulness to me through life, and shield
against its ills however things might go amiss
and The world frown upon me, it would be taste
for reading.
, 1863-01-24
The Widowed Sword.

They have sent me the sword that my brave boy wor
On the field of his young rcnoWn-
On the last red field where his fate was sealed,
And the sun of his days went down.
Away with tears
That are binding me so;
There is joy in his years,
Though his young head be low;
And I'll gaze with solemn delight evermore,
On the sword that my boy, my brave boy wore.
Twas for freedom and home that gave him away,
Like the sons Of his race of old;
And though aged and gray, am childish this day,
He is dearera Thousand fold
There's glory above him
To hullow his ne;ne-
land thot viii love him
40 d;ed for its fame;
AND solace Tdlll shine when my old heart is sore,
Round 'he sword that my brave boy wore
! u so noble so true-how they st cd how they fell
In the battle the plague, and the cold
Oh, as bravely and well as ere story could tell
Of the flowers Of the heroes of old.
Like a sword through the foe
Was that fearful attack.
That so bright ere the blow
Comes so boodily hack;
And foremost, among them his colors he bore
And here is the sword that my brave boy WORE
1t was kind of his comrades We know not how kind
1t is more than the Indies to me;
You know not how kind and steadfast of mind
The soldier to sorrow may be.
They knew well how lonely
How grievously wrung,
Is the heart that It's only
Love loses so young.
And they closed his dark eve when the battle oe
And sent his old father the sword that he wore.
, 1863-01-24
Female Society.

1t is better for you to pass an evening once or
twice in ladys drawing-room, even though the
conversation is slow, and you know the girls song
by healt than in club, tavern, or the pit of a
theater. All amusements of youth to which vir-
tuous women are not admitted, rely on it, are
deleterious in their nature. All men who avoid
female society have dull perceptions and are stu
pid, or have gross tastes and revolt against what
is pure. Your club swaggerers, who are sucking
the butts of billiard cues all night, call female
ciey ihsipid. Poetry is uninspirng to yokel;
beauty has no charms for blind man; music
does not please the poor beast who does not know
one tune from another but as a true epicure is
hardly ever tired of water, saucey and brown
biead and butter, protest | cannot sit for
whole night talking to a well regulated, kindly
woman about Ler girl Fanny, or her boy Frank,
and not like the evenings entertainment. One of
the greatest benefits man may derive from wo-
mans society is, that he is bound to be respect
full to her. The habit is of great good to your
moral men, depend upon it. Our education
makes us the most eminently selfish men in the
world We fight for ourselves, we yawn for our
selves, we hope for ourselves we push for our
selves, we light our pipes and say we won't go
out we prefer ourselves and our ease and the
greatest good that comes to man from a wonans
society is, thst he has to think of somebody to
whom he is bound to be consistent, attentive and
respectful TKackeray.
, 1863-01-24

THE project of overland communication be-
tween Canada and British Columbia is discussed
by the press of the British colonies. 1t looked
upon as a preliminary step to the building of a
railroad across the continent, through British
America,
, 1863-01-24
]. w. COOK,
HENRY LA W,

FORWARDING AND COMM fSSION Merchant,
4 Front street, Portland, Oregon.
Importer and dealer in Eastern Wagon Timber
Hubs, Spokes, FellOes, &c.
Also on hand and for sale General Assortment
of Oregon Produce.
A constant supply of the Celebrated Standard
Mills Flour on hand and for sale in lots to suit.
"
, 1863-01-24
Watch Repairing.

VNHE subscriber would inform the citizens CT
of Walla Walla and vicinity that any k1as
work entrusted to his care Through the ex- $50
press) will receive his personal attention From his
long experience in the business, he is enabled to per
form it in a manner unsurpassed IN the State.
Charges low as elsewhere, and all work war
ranted
Heis also preparedto fill any orders in the Watch
and Jewelry Business, with dispatch, at the lowest
possible prices. JACOB COHEN.
Portland, Oregon, April7, 1852. Hons
, 1863-01-24

THE SEcRET.--A good-natured fellow, who was
nearly eaten out of house and home by the con-
slant visits of bis friends felt very poor one day,
and was complaining bitterly of his very numer-
Gus visitors. "Shure and III tell ye how to get
rid of em, said an Irishman. "Pray how ""Lend
money to the poor devils, and borrow money of
the rich ones and nather sort will trouble you
again.
, 1863-01-24

SPELLNG.-"Can you spell the word saloon ?"
was asked of a cockney by aPhiladelphian. Ger
tainly !" said the Londoner, with look of triumph,
"there's hess, and hay, and hell, and two
hoes, and hen.
, 1863-01-24
BRIDGES g. SON,

Attorneys at Law, walla walla, w. II.
WILL ATTEND FAITHFULLY and PROMPTLY
w to Collections. and will attend the Courts in
Washington Territory and Oregon.
Dec. 20, 1862. 0TIs L. BRIDGES.
2:ly EDWARD L. BRIDGES,
, 1863-01-24

REBEL DEBT-Jef. Davis Confederacy is not
in very good circumstances. On the 1st of Au-
gust the public debt was sS47,OOO,OOo, and after
the winter campaign, it will be over 100000,
900. This was portion of the triaing sum to
be assumed in case of making peace.
, 1863-01-24

0lD AoE.-A healthy old man, who is not a
fool, is the happiest creature living 1t is at that
time of Fife only that he enjoys his faculties with
satisfaction. It IS then he has nothing to manage,
as the phrase is he speaks the downright truth !
and whether the rest of the world will give the
privilege or not, has little to ask Of them that be
can take H.
, 1863-01-24
CITY Brewery and Bakery,

~ MEYER, Manufacturer and Wholesale and re-
ELs tail dealer IN Lager Beer; Bread, Butter, Wa
ter, Boston, Sugar and Soda Crackers; Pilot Bread
Fruits, Vegetables. and Wines and Liquors.
Main street, Walla Walla Mt the sign of Bakery
a few doors below Kyger g. Reeses Gly
, 1863-01-24

RATHER FoxY.-A Scotch paper speaks Of a
fox having been seen trying to spring steel trap
by means of stick which he carried in his mouth.
We knew a fox that took the well-pole from the
well and pushed the turkey of from the lower
limb of the tree with it, and put the pole back in
its place. At least, he got the turkey, and the
pole was found all right in the morning.
, 1863-01-24
HUMASON & ODELL,

| 0. HUMASON. JAS. A. oDELL.
A TTORNIES AND COUNSELORS AT LAW,
"A Dalles. Oregon.
| Prompt attention given to collections and other
business placed in their hands.
| March 90, 1862. 15ly
, 1863-01-24

THE UNwRITTEN HISTORY OF THE WAR.-A
correspondent of Forneys Press writes as fol-
lows:
If any distinguished literary man should ever
determine to risk his reputation in wiring a his
tory of this war, we would advise him to go to
the army correspondents for its true and as yet
secret character These men can tell him pri-
vately HOW this has been brainless war thus
far. They can show him how men-traitors-
have received contracts, and while imperfectly
filling them, have been communicating our plans,
such as we had, to the enemy They will tell
him how Southern officers commanded some Of
our outposts, in constant communication with the
enemy, and how men known to be traitors were
filling high positions in our army. They can
tell him, TOO, though they dare not publish the
fact, of how certain Major Generals have been
surprised by the enemy in the East and West,
while they lay drunk in their tents, and how
these men were complimented, instead of being
cashered, by the commanding Generals, for fear
that their valuable services would be lost to the
army in the future. In fact they will tell the
historian how, with abundance of men and means
10 have crushed the rebellion right out, these
means have been nearly all wasted in the face Of
the foe, while the enemy, according TO Wilcox,
Corcoran, Bowman, and Vodges, is stronger to-.
day than ever before, because he has collected
and concentrated his men AID means and has set
tied a system of prosecuting the war.
, 1863-01-24
DENTISTRY.

OHARLES HERZOG PRACTICAL DENTIST
" has recently received new set of instruments,
and Dentistry material, and now feels well assured
that Ire can give better satisfaction than to those
who may patronize him. Charges moderate, and all
work warranted.
Office 4th door above the Union Hotel, Main street,
Walla Wala. 2ly
, 1863-01-24

A YOUNG girl Of the delicate variety tainted the
other day when told that gunbarres were often
exhibited without breeches
, 1863-01-24

PRINTERS LANGUAGE.--Every profession has
its technical terms, and of course the printers
have "smattering," which is only intelligible to
the craft. The following is specimen. 1t don't
mean, however, as much as it would seem to the
unntiated
Jim. put Gen. Beauregard on the galley, and
then finish the murder of that niger you COM
menced yesterday. Set up the ruins of Guyan-
dotte distribute the small pox ; You need not
finish that mutny; put the mumps in the paper
this week. Pitch that pie into hell, and then 60
to the devil, and he will tell you how to dispose
of the dead matter" Not much wonder that DIR.
Faustus was burnt for inventing such a satanical
ri
, 1863-01-24

CHARGING A JURY-If the jury believe from
the evidence that the plaintiff and defendant
were partners in the grocery, and the plaintiff
bought out the defendant, paid for the note by
delivering to the plaintiff COW, which he war
ranted mot breachy," and the warranty was bro
ken by reason of the breach mess Of the COW, and
he drove the COW back, rendered her to the de-
fendant, but the defendant refused to receive her,
the plaintiff took her home again and put
heavy yoke or poke upon her to prevent her from
jumping the fence, and by reason of the yoke or
poke broke her neck and died and if tie Jury
further believe that the defendants interest in
the grocery was worthless, and the COW good
for nothing either for milk or beef then the jury
must find out for themselves how they mist de-
eide the case for the court if it understands it.
SELF and it thinks it does, don't know how such
case should be decided.