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THE TELEGRAPHIc WONDER.-The fol-
lowing account of an extraordinary French
telegraphic invention is given by the Paris
correspondent of the London STAR
The Able CasselPs pantelegraph is taken
up by the Government. A "project ola law
was recently presented to the Corps Legisla-
tiff, which proposes that it should supercede
the Morse apparatus now in universal use
The pantelegraph is one of the greatest sci
entifc wonders of the present day. 1t is
properly enough termed here an autograph
and ameteur A dispatch written at Paris
is reproduced without the assistance of any
clerk at Marseilles with the most rigid fdeli-
ty, as is also portrait, sketch of any kind.
Nor does the Cassell's apparatus need so
great supply of electricity ,as that of Morse,
and is much less affected by the condition
of the atmosphere. The Empress has lately
had her likeness telegraphed to some of her
friends in the provinces and last week, Cas-
selli telegraphed painting Of a full-blown
rose from the Observatory to the bureau OF
telegraphic administration. The petals were
of beautiful pink color, and the leaves of an
equally good green; in short, we're exactly
like the tints of the original. Rossini, also,
not many days ago, telegraphed to Marseilles,
by this apparatus, melody which he impro-
vised in honor of the inventor, and which
has since gone the rounds Of the Paris sa-
Ions.
, 1864-01-02

The RESULT OF STREET EDUCATION
Keep your children off the street. BY that
we mean, do not let them make acquaintan-
ces on the sidewalks. If they frequent the
pubic schools, you must establish sort of
verbal quarantine at your own door, and ex-
anime the youthful tongue once a day, to
see if it has not got a secretion of SANDER
upon it.
Mrs. Careful's little son Manfred came
running into the paternal mansion the other
day, shouting to the cook:
"Now, then, old gal, let's see you slap up
that dinner"
"Why, Manfred" began his astonished
mother, "where did you learn such Ian
guage Who have you been playing with?"
"Me," said the hopeful; 81 run with
Dick Turner, cause he's bully boy with
glass eye That's So.
The fond mother was about to express
some astonishment at the optical misfortune
of Dick, when the son continued:
"Ma, I'm going to buy plug. Jem
Smith wears one, and I'm as big as he"
"a plug" gasped the mother
Yes, STREE, plug. I've got the spon-
dulicks salted down in my box, sure It's
bound to come"
The mother at this juncture ordered the
youngster up stairs, and sent for man SER
want to interpret the slang.
, 1864-01-02
Installation Ode.


1.-THE following ode-composed for the occasion,
Nr. A. L. Brown was sung at the Masonic Celebl
ion in this city on Monday last.l
Hail brethren of the mystic tie,
Assembled here to-day,
Beneath the great Omniscent eye,
In Virtues proud array.
All hail ye worthy sons of Light
Accepted, true, and Free,
Whose hearts fraternal cords unite
In bonds of Harmony.
All Hail our officers elect,
Who nov before ~ =
Hail to oul Master Architect,
We bow to his command.
May Wisdom, Strength and Beauty lend
Assistance to his reign,
And Harmony and kindness blend
To gid our mystic chain.
May Love fraternal ever dwell,
In each masonic breast,
And Charity with soothing spell
Relieve each heart distressed;
And may that Architect Divine,
Whose mandates we obey,
By his unerring Rule and Line
Guide and direct our way.
And when aside our tools we lay,
And Death asserts his might,
o, may we Pass from mortal clay,
To Raise in Glorious Light;
Where, standing at His own right hand,
Our hearts and works to prove,
May we receive, at his His command,
Eternal rest above.
, 1864-01-02

INFERENTIAL REAsoNING.-A physician
took young student to see patient who
was confined to his bed. Sir said the ply
sician to the sick man, you have been i'm
prudent, you have eaten oysters
The patient admitted that the had. Re-
turning home, the student asked the doctor
how he had discovered that the man had eat
en- oysters.
why replied the doctor, Il saw the shells
under the bed
A few days after, the student was sent to
visit the same patient. He soon returned,
however, saying that he had been kicked
out of the house for telling the patient he
had been imprudent; he had eaten horse
flesh
'HorseResh, you young fool what do you
mean p cried the doctor.
Because, sir, saw a saddle and pair of
spurs under the bed
, 1864-01-02

JoDEs' Colby dabe is Jodes-Dadiel
Jodes. alb the bost biserable bad udder
the sud- alb eterdally catchig cold by
dose is everlastigly gubbed up, so that l
dever can talk plaid. tried everything id
the world to prevedt it, subber ad widter, it
is all the sabe l breathe through by bouth
frob Jaduary to Decebber, frob the begid-
dig to the edd of the year. I've tried every
systeb of beddicid, but id valid All kids Of
teas, drobs, add old wibbed's dosdtrubs have
bid tried I've swallowed edOugh of theb to
drowd be; but its do use Dothig udder
heaved cad keep by feet warb, dothing keep
be frob catchig cold.
, 1864-01-02
NUMBER y.
Prenticeisms.

General Jim Lane talks about his plat
form. Probably beneath the gallows his last
platform will be erected, and he will not be
likely to stand on it long.
The Southern papers speak of an army of
ghosts as having been seen in the air on the
lst of October. The rebels had better try
to conscript that army to fight their battles
1t could get along even with such clothes
and rations as they provide.
The Administration, if it suspend many
more of our brave Generals, will lose its sus-
penders, and make an useemly exhibition of
itself
Let our regiments be presented by the la
dies with handsome stands of colors, and
they will be the right kind of colored regi-
ments
The Richmond Despatch speaks of Gen.
Bragg as "morose and arbitrary" Yes, he
is as arbitrary as Lincoln's arrests.
Gen. Rosecrans may be condemned by the
administration that makes and unmakes
Generals, but he will ever be held in CRATE
full remembrance by the people who make
and unmake administrations.
1t does very little good to hold public
meetings and pass resolutions in favor of
the war All the resolutions we need are
the resolutions of individuals to go into the
war. ar.I
We see a notice of the sending of "two
barrels of fine whisky" to one of our Briga-
dier-Generas. We don't like these double
barreled whisky.drinkers
Do one thing at time-that's the rule
When you have done slandering your
neighbors, begin to say your prayers
When ship goes into port, she usually
steadies; when port goes into man he
usually reels.
A lady sometimes gets as much intoxica-
ted at her glass as topper does at his.
We must not undervalue physicians
Perhaps the fabric of society would fall
without them-they are its pillars.
A fellow that doesn't benefit the world by
his life, does it by his death i
In the game of diplomacy only the keen
and the profound can pass In the game of
"uchre" anybody can pass that pleases.
That man has no strength who doesn't re-
spect womans weakness.
We don't always improve by practice
Our second childhood is poorer than the
first.
We have no professional court fools in
these times, but we have thousands of court
ed fools.
Too many of our modern poets sing of
little else than their own personal suffer
ings. They mix up their maladies and their
melodies.
, 1864-01-02

LABoR.-W Would you be an honest man
and enjoy competency with pleasure, un-
known to hasty wealth or sly roguery-work.
Let your sweat drops wash your gains from
dishonesty. You shall live to tell your chill
dren that you observed and felt the wisdom
of the royal preacher: "Wealth gathered by
vanity shall be diminished, but wealth gath
cred by labor will be increased"
, 1864-01-02

Life is a constant struggle for riches, which
we must leave behind, They seem given us
as nurse gives playthings to a child, to
amuse us until we fall asleep.
, 1864-01-02

The following dispatch went through by
telegraph month or two since :" Charley
and Julia met at SIS yesterday-quarrel-
led and parted forever-met again this morn
ing, and parted to meet no more-met again
this evening, and were married"
, 1864-01-02

Prentice says girls will differ. One Of
them lately broke her neck in trying to es-
cape being kissed, and great many Of them
are re-ready to break their necks to get kissed.
, 1864-01-02

''Sam, why don't you talk too massa and
tell him to lay up treasures in Heaven ?"-
"What for What de use ub layin' up
treasures dar, whar he neber see um agin?"
, 1864-01-02
Watch Repairing.

ITNHE subscriber would inform the citizens C2
of WalIa Walla and vicinity that any ELA
work entrusted to his care (through the ex-
press) will receive his personal attention From his
long experience in the bdsness he is enabled to per
form it in manner unsurpassed in the State.
Charges low 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, April 7, 1862. l9m6
, 1864-01-02

A Methodist minister in Kansas, living
on a small salary, was greatly troubled to
get his quarterly instalment. He at last
told the non-paying trustees that he must
have his money, as he was suffering for the
necessaries of life. "Money" replied the
trustees, "you preach for money? We
thought you preached for the good Of souls !"
''SOuls !" responded the reverend, 81 can't
eat souls-and if | could, it would take a
thousand such as yours to make a meal !"
A priest said to peasant whom he thought
rude: "You are better fed then taught, -
Shud think was" replied the clodhopper,
"as I feeds myself and you teaches me"
, 1864-01-02
l.. y. RECToR,

County Auditor of Walla Walla Co., w. T.
Ofice-with Clerk of the U. S. District Court,
City of Wala Walla.
EEDS, MORTGAGES, Powers of Attorney and
IL ot er instruments of writing carefully drawn
up and Acknowledgements taken. Instruments for
any part of the United States Acknowledged or Ger
tilted under the Seal of the District Court.
Aug. s, lS63.-tf L. J. RECTOR.
, 1864-01-02
waIIa waIIa Drug Store

Wa1la WalIa Drug store
Main Street, Opposite Bank Exchange
TUSTRECEIVED AND FOR SALE cheap <x-<N
sD for Cash, complete and fresh assort- ~
ment Of Drugs, &DS
Chemicals, Perfumery, Paints. Oils, Putty,
Window-glass, Varnishes, Brushes, Patent Medi-
cnes Lamps, and Crystal IlluminatngKerosene, to
Wala and vicinity.
ss- Prescriptions put up with care and Advice
Gratis. DIR. JAMES S. CRAIG.
Jan.3l 1863. 2;lly
, 1864-01-02
LIVERY AND FEED STABLE.
Abbott's Old stand,
WALLA WALLA, w. T.

]. F. ABBOTT, PROPRIETOR.
IMPROVEMENTS have recently been made in
i these premises for the better accommodation of
the public. The proprietor will spare no efforts to
merit-as he hopes to receivea living share of pub
lie patronage.
HORSES TO LET, OR HIRE,
by the day week, at moderate prices also Horses
taken to Keep, on terms satisfactory to parties.
The patronage of the public is most respectfully
solicited.
Waa Walla Aug. |, ls63.-tf
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26
VOL. XVI.-NO s
VETS,

"V-e-t. Vet" What does it mean
Upon yon soldiers faded coati
His hand is hard and rough and brown,
see scar along his throat,
His eyes seem looking far off STILL
His close-shut mouth is grim.
Mother, what means that little word
Upon sleeve so worn and dim ?"
1t means, my child, that rugged hand
Has welded musket long and well;
Has sent the iron thunder home,
And tuned the song of screeching shell.
1t meaHs-that steady, staunch and true
He fairly won that ragged scar,
While you and sat safe at home,
And read the news about the war.
What wonder if the mouth is grim,
That said so many swift good-byeis:
Life's common words are idle breath
Beside those earnest battle cries,
What wonder if the gaze is dim,
And yonder strangely fingers yet;
The eye that has looked straight at Death
His image may not soon forget.
And this is what it means, to earn
The title veteran" on o coat;
To march through flood and field, or lie
Where rebel rifles sweep the moat;
To serve the guns in rifle-pits;
To sleep beneath the silent sky;
To dream of home and wake to war:
To see comrade drop and die.
To hear and heed the fearful song,
Which whistling Mimic bullets sing;
To faint and fall. and longing lie
For one cool draught from rocky spring.
And this my child, is what it says.
That little word ofletters three;
Go clasp his hand, and give him thanks,
For battles fought for you and me.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26
NEW SERIES-NO. $50

white race; contend that the treason
and rebellion Of the master freed the slave,
and the armies have commanded have
conducted to safe points more negroes
than those of any general officer in the
army; but prefer negroes for pioneers,
teamsters, cooks and servants, others
gradually to experiment in the art of the
soldier, beginning with the duties of local
garrisons, such as we had at Memphis,
Vicksburg, Natchez, Nashville and Chat
tanooga; but I would not draw on the
poor race for too large proportion of it's
active, athletic young men, for some must
remain to seek new homes and provide
helpless.
These are some Of my peculiar notions,
but assure you they are shared by large
proportion of our fighting men.
You may show this to the agents of the
other States in the same business as your
SELF l am, &C.,
(Signed) W. T. SHERMAN,
Major General.
Official copy:
|. NJ. DAYTON, Aid-de-C Camp
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26
Capital and Laber.

The tyranny of capital over labor has
often been subject of complaint, and, at
least in the old world, with reason. But
when the circumstances are reversed, and
capital is more abundant than labor, the
latter becomes despot, and one of the
worst kind, because often unreasoning and
unreasonable. This is illustrated by the
miners of Pennsylvania, who, by repeated
strikes, have advanced their wages from
one dollar and fifty cents to ten dollars per
day, and whose latest demand is 81 per
hour, while the whole community is groan-
ing under the consequent enhance in price
of one of the most necessary commodi-
ties of life. We have another illustration {:
The Horse-shoers Trade Union of New
York have resolved that no machine
made shoes shall be used there, and, in
order to carry their resolve into execution,
have, by threats and violence, compelled
arge numbers of the craft to leave their
Employment.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26
RECRUITING In REBEL STATES,
Letter from Gen. Sherman to the
Agent Of Massachusetts.
A Decided Hit on the Old Bay
State.

Gen. Sherman writes with the direct
ness of an honest and frank soldier in the
following letter:
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY D1yIsOS OF rur)
MISSISSIPPI, IN THE FIELD, I,
NEAR ATLANTA, Ca, July 80, 1854. }
John A. SpooneT, Esq, Agent for tile Common
'0edt@ Of Massachusetts,, Nashville, Tenn.:
SIR: Yours from Chattanooga, July
28th, is received, notifying me of your ap-
pointment by your State as Lieut.. Colonel
and Provost Marshal of Georgia, Alabama,
and Mississippi, under the act of Congress
approved July 3, 1864, to recruit volun-
teers to be credited to the States respec-
lively.
On applying to Gen. Webster at Nash
vile, he will grant you pass through our
lines to those States, and as I have had
considerable experience in those States, I
would suggest recruiting depots to be es-
tablished at Macon and Columbus, Miss.
Selma, Montgomery and Mobile, Ala,
and Columbus, Milledgeville and Savan-
nab, Ga.
do not see that the law restricts you
to black recruits, but you are at liberty to
collect white recruits also. 1t is waste of
time and money to open rendezvous in
Northwest Georgia, for assure you that
have not seen an able-bodied man, black
or white, there, fit for soldier, who was
not in this army or the one opposed TO it.
You speak of the impression going
abroad that am opposed to the organiza-
of colored regiments.
NV Nr,1n10nc ,,c,o11xY
and there are no reasons why you should
not know them.
Though entertaining profound reverence
for our Congress, do doubt their wisdom
in the passage of this law:
l. Because civilian agents about an
army are nuisance.
2. The duty of citizens to fight for their
country is too sacred one to be peddled
off by bying up the refuse of other States.
8. 1t is unjust to the brave soldiers and
volunteers who are fighting, as those who
compose this army do, to place them on a
par with the class of recruits you are after.
A. The negro is in transition state, and
is not the equal of the white man.
5. He is liberated from his bondage by
act of war; and the armies in the field
are entitled to all his assistance in labor
and fighting, in addition to the proper
quotas of the States
6. This bidding and bartering for re-
cruits, white and black, has delayed the
reinforcement of our armies at the same
time when such reinforcements would have
enabled us to make our successes perma-
nent.
z. The law is an experiment which.
pending war, is unwise and unsafe, and
has delayed the universal draft which l
firmly believe will become necessary to
overcome the widespread resistance Of
fered us; and I also believe the universal
draft will be wise and benenclal; Io'' us-
der the Providence Of God 1t aoiN sepa-
rate the sheep from the goats, and demon
strate aozat citizens ,oiU fight for Mei,.
country, and rhat soiH only talk.
No enc will infer from this that I am
not friend of the negro as well as the
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26

Translated from the German, byJ. W. Montelair.
Mother, dear mother hungry anil:
Fray give me food, or else I will die
Patience, my child, and thou shalt eat:
Early tomorrow we'll SOW the wheat
Tomorrow came, and the wheat was sOwn !:
But the child still moaned with piteous
tone:
I" Mother, dear mother, hungry am l.:
Pray give me food, or else will die
Patience, my child, thy longing restrain:
Tomorrow morning we'll gather the grain ="
And when the sheaves all gathered Law,
Family the child was heard to say:
Mother, dear mother, hungry ami;
Pray give me food, or else will die"
" Patience, my child, and dry thy tears:
Tomorrow we'll thrash the wheaton spears. -
And when the thrashing had all been DONE
The mournful infant anew begun:
" Mother, dear mother. hungry ami;
Fray give me food or else shall die
Soon, my child, approaches the hour:
Tomorrow the miller will grind the -four. .
And after the grain had all been ground,
The child continued its wailing sound
Mother. dear mother, hungry ami
Pray give me food, or else will die
The bread is kneaded, my darling one:
Tomorrow the baking will be begun
The bread was baked at dawn of fday.
But famished and dead the infant Law.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26

The whole number of Electors is 226, of
which ia is requisite to elect President
in the Electoral College. The Chicago
Convention will have 452 delegates, hav-
ing the same number of votes as the total
number Of Electors, namely, 226. If the
two-thirds rule be adopted at the Oonven-
ton, the candidate nominated will have
to receive ISL votes. In 1860, the popu-
lar vote of the States, including those now
IN secession, was against Mr.. Lincoln,
that is, the sum of the Douglas, Bell and
Breckenridge votes exceed the Lincoln
vote. The political influence now rests
largely in the States of New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which
cast within five votes of the number re-
qulred to elect a President. The Cinciu-
natl Enquirer reckons that the following
States can easily be carried against Lin
coin.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26
$1,105,559 &c
Promotions.

1t will be seen by the annexed para
graph that Capt. j. D. ORurTRNDRN, for
merly of this State, has been promoted to
a Oolonelcy:
Lieut. Colonel VIM. H. Owen, corps quar-
termaster, and Capt j. D. Cruttenden, quar-
termaster OF the artillery brigade, have just
been appointed full colonies. and ordered to
of the army, under the late act of Congress
reorganizing the Quartermasters' Department.
The appointments came unsolicited, and have
been conferred on those most worthy to 70
ceive them.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26

We think Michigan might safely be add
ed to this list but without her they have
two-thirds of the electoral votes. In spite
OF military interference and the unscrupu-
lous use OF usurped powers by Lincolnites,
an outraged people will speak in thunder
tones their overwhelming condemnation of
Lincoln and Lincolnism in November next.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26
The Electoral College.

From the Detroit Free Press. .s.
The apportionment of the Electors under
which the coming Presidential election
will be held, eleven States in secession
not participating in the canvass,) differs
materially from that of 1860. The num-
Der of the Electoral College is seen in the
following table
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-08-26

From the Boston Advertiser, Aug -.
Since the 2Sth of July inclusive, the fol-
lowing DEGREES of distribution have been
made on prize cases by the United States
District Court in this city:
Net amount for
Prizes Captors. distribution
Str SCOTS. Str Connecticut. 73,439 so
Sch Alliance. Str S. Carolina and
Sch 7. A. Ward. 23,281 "a
Str Greyhound. Str Connecticut. j.. 484, 1862 Oh
Young Republic Str Grand Gulf. 411.519 70
$1,105, $50 sc
We are informed that this is the great
distribution ever ordered in this country.
At any rate it is so immense as to make
the blue jackets, to soy nothing of the
landsmen, long to be afoat under the stars
and stripes. The prizes taken by the Con-
necticut, it will be seen, amount to more
than $55S, 900, while the Grand Gulf is
not far behind.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-01-14
The Frsedmen's village at Airing
eCZ34St0Ik. Is

From the N Y. Evening Post. Dec. 3d.
The object for which this village was es-
tsbl;shed was to gather together and train
to, useful euploymmts. within its limits,
all hs might've blacks within the District
of Columbia. Lieutenant Colonel Ellis
Gresne, of the qnartsrmsster's. Department,
first suggested the plsu to Mr.. Stanton.
who ordered him 10 carry It into effect,
We Iesrn that there Are nov Asiing-
ton feurtses dwellings. . church. . hospi;
pital. and home for the eyed and m
firm. The hospital is empty. The
dwellings. two STORED. are constructed in
groops u f6drtufder Zach roof each bav-
ing two rooms perfectly lighted and vsnti-
lslsd. acooking stove. yard snd aecess
to . wall: There ere one hundred and
tbinl As k6a26a f6sss &466I5 tkre are
workshops in which men are taught TO
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-01-14

In . great many places, we see by our
exchanges. the farmers who hanl wood TO
town have supple soldiers families with
this Indispensable article. while others
have contribute A.,ur. meal. potatoes. ap-
pies. meat. De. &c.- The way they man
age it IN other places,-the citizens hold
. meeting. invite the farmers to contribute
such articles. in such quantities, as they
feel disposed. on . parlicul n day. an.
then appoint committee to receive and
dissribute their contributions. We have
no doubt the farmers of Marshall would
respond as literally to such an invitation
rs they have in other counties. 1t is sug-
gested that tomorrow evening. at the
close Ct Judge Andrews lecture. would
he an appropriate time TO organize a meet
ing and appoint a committee for this rur-
pess. We hope to see large attendance
to hear the lecture. anil that this matter
will then be attended to. 1t has been al.
ready too long neglected for our credit.
bat better late than never.