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, 1864-05-06
Let US be Friends.

o, let us be friends, for how sweet is the feeling
That thrleth the frame true friendships lips meet
A joy without measure seems tenderly stealing
TIL ouGh channels that lead to affections proud seat
0, let Us be friends, it is transport to smother
The embeTs of wrath that have harrassed the heart
Tis rapture TO nestle our heads on each other, Ia
And stife the flames that rude words did impart.
0, let us be friends It's the faiugs Of nature
That chieth the tongue tho the heart is still warm;
The soul meaneth not what unkindness would teach
her,
To sully the breath ofsweet Untys charm.
O, let us be friendsl there's feeling most holy
Awakened when hand unto hand stealoth back
It tuneth the chords OF music which wholly
Deghteth the blood il its infinite track.
0, let us he friends life is pregnant with troubles;
Then heed not the trifes that round strOwn;
They are the heart but delusi7e bright bubbles,
That tempt the weak soul from its glorious throne
o, let us be friends rest your head this bosom
Yes, let US forgive and forget all the past;
Let US nourish that love which would fain be in
blossom,
And gather the sweets of its perfume at last.
, 1864-05-06
Scenes After the Battle.

Among all the sketches that we have
seen from the fields of battle, we have read
none with more tender interests than the
record Of the labors of two women in the
service Of the Sanitary Commission at Get
tysburg. 1t is published in the tract form
by Randolph under the title of " What we
did at Gettysburg" We make some ex-
tracts
" For this temporary sheltering of all these
wounded men, Government could make no
provisions. There was nothing for them if
too late for the cars, except open fields and
hunger, in preparation for their fatiguing
journey. 1t is expected when the cars are
ready that the men will be promptly sent to
meet them, and Government cannot provide
for mistakes and delays, SO that but for the
Sanitary Commissions Lodge, and comforta-
Bile supplies, for which the wounded are in
debted to the hard workers at home, men,
badly hurt, must have suffered night and
day, while waiting for the d" next train"
We had on an average sixty of such men
each night for three weeks under our care,
sometimes one hundred, somtimes thirty and
with the "deegation," and the help of 9TH
er gentlemen volunteers, who all worked de-
votedly for the men, the whole thing was a
great success, and all of us can't help being
thankful we had a share, however small, in
making it So Sixteen thousand good meals
were given; hundreds Of men kept through
the day, and twelve hundred sheltered at
night, their wounds dressed, their supper
and breakfast secured, rebels and all. You
will not, [ am sure, regret that these most
wietched men, these " enemies" sick and in
prison, were helped and cared, through your
supplies, though certainly they were not in
your minds when you packed your barrels
and boxes. The clothing we reserved for
our own men, except now and then, shiv-
ering rebel needed it, but in feeding them
we could make no distinctions. 1t was Gu
rious to see among our workers at the Lodge
the disgust and horror felt for the rebels
giving place to the kindest feeling for woun-
ded men.
Among our wounded soldiers, one night
came an elderly man, sick, wounded and era
zy, singing and talking about home. We
did what we could for him, and pleased him
greatly with a present of a red flannel shirt
and red calico dressing gown, all of which
he needed, and in which he dressed himself
up, and then wrote letter to his wife, made
it into little book, with gingham covers
and gave it to one of the gentlem to mail fol
him The next morning he was sent on
with the company from the Lodge, and that
evening two tired women came into our
camp, his wife and sister who hurried on
from their home to meet him, arriving just
too late Fortunately we had the queer lit
tie gingham book to identify him by, and
, 1864-05-06

A Newfoundland paper, speaking of the
House of Assembly, Of that island, eulogizes
it in the following unequivocal language =
" Take them for all in all, from their Speak
er downward, we do not suppose a greater
set of low-lived and lawless scoundrels, as
public men can be found under the canopy
of heaven"
, 1864-05-06
The European Crisis.

No longer slowly, but rapidly, Europe is
moving Onwards into the vortex-into a Sc
ries of commissions which will shake the
Continent throughout its length and breadth.
The old landmarks have been disappearing
the old treaties are being forced into abey-
anee and through new wars Europe is
about to grope her way towards new set
tlement. The prospect is to be deplored,
but it must be faced. Five years ago to-
day few words spoken in the reception
room Of the Tuileries gave warning to States
men that the sword was to be employed to
solve the Gordian Knot of the most urgent
of the international grievances. Ever since
the outbreak of the Italian war, which fol
lowed these words, the feeling OF disquiet or
alarm has spread among nations as well as
among Governments Every leading coun-
try in Europe has been Strengthening its
fortresses, recognizing or equipping anew
its armies, and reconstructing its fleets. The
budgets of time of peace have been bur
dened with expenses only natural in time
of war. Governments and peoples alike
have been forcasting the future, and each
in its own way, clumsily or efficiently, has
been preparing for it. The crisis is now
visibly approaching. The ornaments which
have arisen during the past five years of ap-
prehension, constitute, in one point of view,
the best bulwark for the maintenance of
peace. No State can now be assaied de-
fenceless and surprised Its own blunders
may lay it open to the blow of an adversary,
but it cannot be taken unawares. This, in
truth, constitutes the chief obstacle to the
outbreak of continental war. But if we
look at the other side of the shield, the in
suficiency of the protection may well be
doubted. Nations now feel that they can
do no more ; and that since the difficulties
of the position only continue to multiply, it
is as well to face them at once as to seek to
postpone them by continuance of irksome
sacrifice They are growing weary of
peace which seems to be only a truce-of
peace that is fraught with the burdens and
poisoned with the apprehensions of war
We believe we only state a fact when we say
that the period of alarm has passed, and
that the intermittent panics, in most couu-
tries of Europe, which commenced with the
outbreak of the italian war, have given
place to a logged and somewhat angry feel
ing Of defiance. Men have been forced to
count the cost and contemplate the contin-
gencies of war; the prospect has been
growing familiar to them; and so far as re-
CARDS the Continental States, it is the Gov
ernments more than the peoples, which
shrink from the crisis that seems daily draw
ing nearer-BlackWood
, 1864-05-06

WATCH Your NEIGHBoRs.-As many
persons are apt to go astray unless there is a
bright eye kept upon them, and as many
persons have little or no business of their
own to attend to, it may not be amiss for
some of those, who feel greater interest in
the welfare of their own neighbors than in
themselves, to commit the following to mem
Ory:
Some one has said, it is always best to
watch your neighbors. In fact, not to let
them stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do not TO be
sure, you never knew them to do anything
very bad, but it may be on your account
they have not. Perhaps, if it had not been
for your kind care, they might have dis
graced themselves and families long time
ago. Therefore do not relax any effort to
keep them where they ought to be; never
mind your own business-that will take care
of itself. There is a man passing along
he is looking over the fence-be suspicious
of him; perhaps he contemplates stealing
something some Of these dark nights; there
is no knowing what queer fancies he may
have got into his head.
If you find any symptoms of any one pass
ing out of the path of duty tell every one
else that you see, and be particular to see a
great many 1t is a good way to circulate
such things, though it may not benefit
yourself or any one else, particularly. Do
keep something going-silence is dreadful
thing; though its is said there was silence in
Heaven for the space of Half an hour, do
not let any such thing occur on earth it
would be too much like Heaven for the in
habitants of this mundane sphere.
If after all your watchful care, you cam
not see anything out of the way in any one,
you may be sure it is not because they have
not done anything bad perhaps, in an un-
guarded moment, you lost sight Of them
throw out hints that they are no better than
they should be-that you should not won
der if people found out what they were after
in while, then they may not carry their
heads so high. Keep it agoing, and some
one will take the hint and begin to help af-
ter awhile-then there will be music, and
everything will work to a charm.
Carry this system into politics, and even
although you never rise yourself, you will at
least have the satisfaction of keeping down
those to whom you are opposed. Is your
neighbor becoming prominent, in fact, ri
sing man, and you can find nothing in his
character or life to assail, then, as last re-
sort, whisper it around that he isn't Sound. ,
You needn't tell in what he is not sound
Be sure that your story is carried, and be
equally sure that it gathers as it travels, and
by the time i. is fairly put in circulation,
this lack of soundness, if politician, will be
held to mean that he is not reliable on the
Union question: 1t matters not that the
party against whom you have thus instilled
your poison is as true to his country as the
needle to the pole; you have gained your
point, and in politics, as in everything else,
there is nothing like success.
, 1864-05-06

GRAPHIc.-A humorous writer of the
Chicago Post describes how he got out of a
bad scrape in the Police Court.
"The next morning the Judge of the Po-
lice Court sent for me. l went down and
he received me cordially. Said he had
heard of the wonderful things 1 had accom-
plished at Byran Hall, and was proud Of
me. I was promising young man and all
that Then he offered a toast. Guilty or
not guilty p l responded in brief but ell
oquent speech, setting forth the Importance
of the occasion that had brought us together.
After the usual ceremonies 1 loaned the
city ten dollars"
, 1864-05-06
The Face on the Wall.
the oaken wainseot sombre,

On the Oaken wainscOt sombre,
In the homestead long ago,
Hung picture, quaint and olden,
Which the sunsets fading glow
Lighted from the western window
Every day and May and l
Stole to watch the face so wOndrous,
Wondrous for its searching eye.
Crept we in the farthest shadow,
Right or left, aside or near,
Peeping from the cOrnered shadow,
TiptOe, yOnder-crOuchng near.
Still those eyes their vigil holding,
Seemed to follow where we went;
And the grave and silent features
Wore look of calm content.
So we grew to love the picture
Long before they told us why
That It was onr fathcr's portrait.
Orphan waits were May and u
Lonely, then, we felt no longer,
While the steady eye of love
Kept its kind and friendly glances
Bending on us from above.
Many years since then have fitted,
But in hours Of pain and gloom
Often l recall the lesson
fthe Oaken Wainscot room.
Little May went on journey
With the angels long ago,
And the locks about my temples
Bear drift Of coming snow.
Yet whens'e 'er I grow despondent,
And lite's shadows chill me sore,
Still think of One above me,
Who is watching evermore.
Then comes back the same old feeling,
Born and nurtuTed long ago,
That Fathers presence loving
Will be mine through shade or glow.
Tho l stumble in the darkness
Till his face l scarce can see,
Yet, repentant, if / trust him,
BE will raise and pardon me.
When it grows through coming twilight
Quite too dark to see him here,
Upward he will lift my spirit
Where my vision shall be clear.
There among the angels waiting,
Two will see their child come home,
And little May (will May stag little p
Forward from the ranks will come,
Out Of corners, ont Of shadows,
Out Of twilight eVermore,
May and l will see Our Father
In the light unseen before.
, 1864-05-06
NM. PHILLIPS,
Watch Repairing.

TNHE subscriber would inform the citizens C2
of Walla Walla and vicinity that any .k1A
work entrusted to his care 0hrough the ex sNA-S
press) 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.
Heis also preparedto fill any orders in the Watch
and Jewelry Business with dispatch, at the lowest
possible prices. JACOB COHEN.
Portland Oregon, April7 1862. Tl9m6
, 1864-05-06

THIS world is a serious world, and human
life and business are also serious matters,
not to BE- trifed with nor cheated by sham
and hypocrisies, but to be dealt with in all
truth, soberness and sincerity. No one can
thus deal with it who is not himself pos
sessed of these qualities, and the result of a
life is the test Of what virtue there is in it.
False men leave no mark 1t is truth alone
which does the masonry of the world
which founds empires and builds cities, and
establishes laws, commerce and civilization
, 1864-05-06

A gallant soldier was once heard to say
that his only measure of courage was this /:
"Upon the first FIRE Immediately look upon
myself as dead man then fight the re-
mainder of the day as regardless of danger
as a dead man should be. All my limbs 1
carry out of the field 1 regard as so much
saved out of the fire."
, 1864-05-06
NUMBER 2I.
The Desert of Sahara.

The discoveries ofrecent African explor-
ers have dispelled many of the notions con-
cerning the great desert of Sahara. 1t used
to be described as a nearly level sandy plain.
This plain, it it is now ascertained, does not
exist. except at its eastern and western ez-
tremites. The central portions rise, in the
form Of terraces, to 900 or 900 feet above
the valleys Of the Atlas and Soudan They
are intespersed with ravines and granite hills.
Barth speaks Of mountains 1000 or 5000
feet high. In general, however the surface
of the desert is fat Or slightly undulatihg
in some places covered with thick bed of
sand, in others hard and finty. Every as
pect confirms the opinion Of Humboldt that
the desert is the bed of former sea elevated
by geological commissions. The traveller, al
most at every step, meets with mounds of
fossil shells and other debris Of marine ami
mails. There are immense deposits of rock
SALT in some places and as pure as marble,
and SO compact as to serve in the construc-
ton of houses Soudan derives salt from
this source. The efervesence of inter and
saltpeter is almost everywhere apparent Lii
Ons, tigers and other ferocous animals with
which the desert has in imagination been
peopled are met with only in the forests of
GASES, where alone they can find food and wa
ter. The lion is the king of the desert only
in poetry. Man is the true wild animal
with whom the traveller breads an encounter,
and bandits infest every caravan route in the
Sahara.
The Sahara is not always destitute of wa
ter. In passing between the tropics, the
sun carries with him heavy laden uimbus
clouds which, not meeting with any noun
tains high enough to cendense their moist
ure and cause it to fall at intervals decend
occasionally by their own gravity, and drop
their watery treasure in gushing torrents,
which fill every ravine. 1t is deluge which
lasts but moment; the water disappears
in the permeable soil as fast as it came and
forms extensive sheets Of water short dis
tance below the surface This fact has
been revealed by numerous soundings. AL
ready excellent artesian wells sunk by French
engineers, have created verdant oases in pla-
ces where every vestige of vegetation APP
peared to be eternally buried beneath the
sand. But these hidden lakes on which the
desert partly reposes are not a recent discov-
cry. From time immemorial the Arabs have
sunk in the open desert wells several hun
dred feet deep, till they met the watery bed,
which they call the subterranean sea.
, 1864-05-06

EARLY IMPREssIoNs.-Pro Professor Hayne,
of Gottingen, used to relate that the first
impression on bis mind where made by the
tears of his mother lamenting that she was
not able to find bread for her children.
, 1864-05-06

A YANKEE NoTIoN-An American cap
italist came to me not many months since,
says a sculptor, and opened the conversation
by saying: "Sir, your name is Robson"
| admitted my name was Robson. "And
you are a statuary," said he. admitted
this fact, also, substituting sculptor Sir
continued he, 4 will give you a commits
SION | bowed, and begged him to be
seated. 'Robson, sir said he, drawing
paper from his pocket, 4 am remarkable
man. was born in the environs of Boston
city, and began life by selling matches at
five cents the bunch. l am worth, at this
moment, one million o'dollars l bowed
again, and said was glad to hear it. Sir
he went on to say, 'how [ Armed that mill
lion O dollars-how from selling matches 1
came to running of errands to taking care
of hoss; to trading in dogs, tobaccos, cot
be the man / am, you'll find made out on
this paper, dates and facts correct. Sir, it
is a very remarkable statement l replied
that had no doubt of it, but that could
not quite see what that had to do with the
matter in hand. Sir said my capitalist,
everything. | wish, sir, to perpetuate my
name. You have very pretty thing, sir,
here in Rome-a pillar with a procession
twisting up all around it, and fgger up at
the top. think you call it Trajan's col
umn. Now, Robson, sir, I wish you to
make me one exactly like it-same hight,
same size, and money no object You shall
represent nay career in all my various trades
a twisting round the column, beginning with
the small chap selling matches at five cents
the bundle, and ending with full length
fgger of me on the summit, with one hand
thus, in my bosom, and the other under my
coat-tails 2
, 1864-05-06

AN OLD PRovERB.-"Trust the first
thought of women, not the second, " is an
old proverb and Montaigne says, that "any
truth which may be attained at one bound,
woman will reach, but that which needs pa
tient climbing is the prize of man."
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THANKSGIVING AT THE FIVE POINTS

il HOUSE, OF iNDUSrRY.JThe I'm Nee, o. the ifou.e
M Industry Masking their snnuai appeal tor aid wond esste
that toIr urgent Their dormitoss aud tables are
crowded and ,ev schools hsvs nj been 90 iou %.
Nearly toussd meels given daily u the n~nston
ard 10 furnish TODD and cOhn io asny pres'ns pr"es
requires arse sum. -, !
ourrsd 81 sssvss hoa.snA os BY the parcts.s or lana
erection and furnishing the building much ncsasd ior .shso
rooms chapel and eRercise ioorn os tho DonNsI
Friend. 70 be cornty aid very n..ens ~ sending sny
ARTICLES OF food thinner for one tnoos@e =. % pspsH
O'CLOCK.
T.r Archibald Russs Pynsadsn,. No Tenth a.
Brxf n camp Secretary, No lts rc,rlst H. Loefrooa
No II loan It, hsrvhsll l~Aerts No ~ Broad
-, Cha, Ely No. 49, Broolns d Fredes.ck O. fosr'.
No IA 4 ast fisenths William I. Booth No. n Front q
"a "a, Suydsm No - Wayrrl~y place j. LsvoIet 70
A. Maiden lane 3. =. Hsldsy. suprn'endc"s NO y"
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Financial.
DECIpROtiTY MINING COMPANY
III or CANADA EAST.

TRUSTEES;
4, Gov. JANIS POLLOCK, Director rnitcd State, Mini
Philadelphia.
WILLIAM g. MOoRHEAD President Pbiadc phia ant
Tre Railroad Conpsny I'hilade mia
CHAS. Il. WRIGHT, Of L. b. Wright co, Philadelphia
HENRY SHELDON, AZ Stanton, Sheldon &C., New
York
WILLIAM p. HATCH OF Fairbanks 4 Goa N""'fo'h
T. h. BUNTING. OF T. h. Bunting \ Co, Ne"' i"H
J.. =. CulrTfNDEN, Gate Register rm"d s'a''s ifes'
N.Y. % NewYork
Presdent--L. T.. CHTTrENDEN
Banbcr---fiSK a HATCH.
Genera Observation-Disclosures hh'hiNi NJ T.
SecretsTy-JOfIN " HOOD
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. concerning my

w hn.bsud J. ". DAVIS, who u W yrIs Of age fes,
ucu.s hiah fu,hcr thics hsh completion gay eye~
Drown Lais is,er,pssssd with gSy, snA he.sy wAsfs
Probably dressed N brown cothet I's. 'as rss
mise aud hand trunk from Holden Rive n.osd pepc
20 Gserge Jsusont hsssabs hoss No. ~ " snsssnse
vinr any Information concerning him OF hs person vii Ice
ber.y rewarded besides eon;r,ns. ,ea' "yoi nysn n'
heart s.r,rt sn wife. Adoress tlhoiNih a VhNis NJ
Jlt Ejshll IT,, WsskiDstosi D. T.
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