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, 1867-07-12
The ProspectiVe Wheat Crop.

A reliable exchange, looking very carefully
after the coming wheat crop, has the following:
Mehigan.-Wheat looks unusually promising.
A large breadth sown, and thereis every pros
pect OF bountiful yield.
Iadisna.-The wheat crop throughout Indiana
is most promising, and the season is now so
much advanced that further injury cannot result
from cold weather, In most parts of the State
it has not been injured from severe winter
weather, and if frost does not iujure it after it
has pretty nearly matured, we may expect a
great abundance, and prosperity to the people
resultiug therefrom. In districts of the country
where spring wheat is mostly sown, we judge
there will be increased skill and industry, be-
yond that of past years, 10 secure large crops
IIinois-Reports concur in placing the amount
sown as about the same as that of last year. II
the harvest season is good, the crop will be
large, The wheat in Sangamon and adjoining
counties looks fnely-better than during the
corresponding season for several years past.
Ohio.-The wheat is looking remarkably fine,
and promises good yield. Mr.. Reeves of Pitts
field, who has Just returned from visit to the
northern part of the State, reports that the
wheat fields are looking we'll.
Iotoa and Mssouri.-The reports indicate an
average amount sown, aud prospects encour-
aging for an average crop.
Wisconsin and HinAesotd.-We have infofma-
ton indicating a good state of growing wheat
and a largely increased crop. The number OF
acres sown in Wisconsin this year will be at
least thirty per cent. greater than last year.
The Wheat Crop Generdliy.-In New England,
not only was more winter wheat sown last fall
than usual, but considerable spring wheat will
be sevu, farmers being of the opinion that they
can furnish themselves with -four cheaper than
SIS to $40 barrel.
From Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, the report is that the
wheat fields are more extensive than are usually
seen, with the prospect of abundant yield.
Illinois and Wisconsin papers say the growing
wheat looks better this season than for several
years; and in Texas and some Of the Southern
States farmers are anticipating the biggest har>
vest of wheat and other cereals they ever had.
, 1867-07-12

TIE RoMANCE OF BED QUILT.-A ConnectiS
cut paper, which a few weeks ago published the
marriage, in the nutmeg State, of Captain R. E.
Fiske, editor of the Helena (Montana) Herald,
to a Miss Chester, learns the bit of romance
connected with their affair which is really worth
telling: "When the war of the rebellion broke
out Mr. Fiske was a resident of the State of
New York from which State he enlisted in the
Union army and obtained the rank of Captain.
In some of the engagements he was wounded,
and taken to the hospital. While be was thus
confined, it appears that the ladies of Vernon 4,
Conn, were at work for the soldiers, and among
other things they provided and sent as hospital
stores, was an ''album bed quilt" which con-
tanned the names of several ladies who assisted
in its construction. As luck would have it, this
bed quilt chanced to find its way to the hospi>
tai, and to the very bed upon which the wound
ed Captain lay aud for amusement, be copied
the names, sending a letter or his photograph,
or both, to the address of every lady. One of
these letters was received by little girl, who,
as she could not write herself procured the ser>
vices of Miss Chester to reply We neet not
particularze further, but it was simply through
the agency of the album bed quilt that Captain
Fiske ever heard of Miss Chester, and now,
after the lapse of two years, that acquaintance
has eliminated in marriage, and the gallant
officer has taken his fair lady to tie home in
the West"
, 1867-07-12

Old Farmer Joe steps through the doors
As wide to him as gates Of Thebes;
And thoughtful walks about the floors
Whereoa are piled bis winter stores,
And counts the profits of his globes.
Ten tons Of timothy up there,
And four Of cloV0r 10 the bay;
Reditop that's cut we'll middlin' fair,
And bins Of roots, obloug aud square,
To help exc out the crops of hay.
dozen head Of cattle stand
Reflective In the leafstrewu yard;
Aud stalks are stacked on every hand,
The latest Offering Of the land
To labor long msintained aud hard.
cart-ioads of pumpkins yonder lie
The horse is feeding in bis stall,
The oats are bundled seaffold high
And peas and beans are hsaped hard by,
As if there were some festival.
At length Old Farmer Joe sits down
A patch across each Of his knees;
He crowds his hat back on bis crown,
Then clasps his hands-so hard and brown
And, like farmer, takes his ease.
"How fast the years do goIi says be;
at seems, in fact, but yesterday,
That in this very barn we three
David, Ezekiel, and me-
Pitched in the summer loads Of hayl
David-he sails in his clipper now;
Ezekiel died in Mexico
Some one must stay and ride to pillow,
Get up the horse and milk the COW
And who, Of course but little Joe.
might have bsen-I can't tell whatl
Who knows about it till be tries
! might have settled in some spot.
Where money is more easy got; r.
Perhaps beneath Pacific skies
might have preached like Parson Jones;
Or got living at the law;
might have gone to Congress, sure;
might have kept Water Cure;
might have gone and been-oh, pshawl
Far better is it as tits;
What future waits him, no man knows;
What he has got. that sure is his;
1t makes no odds if stocks have riz,
Or politicians come to blowsl
Content is rich, and somethin' more
think / have heard somebody say;
If it rains, it's apt to pour;
And am rich on the barn floor,
Where all is,miue that l can raise.
I've plowed aud moved this dear old farm,
Till not a rod but what know;
I've kept the old folks snug and warm-
And lived without twinge of harm
l don't care how the storm might blow.
And on this same old farm I'll stay,
And raise my cattle aud my corn;
Here shall these hairs turn wholly gray;
These feet shall never learn to stray;
But will die where was borur'
And Farmer Joe pulled down his hat,
And stood up on his feet once more;
He would not argue, after that,
But like born aristocrat,
Kept on his walk about the floor.
, 1867-07-12

COLD AND CATARRH.-"Catcbing cold," says
DR.. Thomas Inman, is a common phrase for an
attack of catarrb, but is a very incorrect one
One year suffered so severely from a series of
"colds" that my attention was drawn especially
to them. Twas then lecturer on Medicine, and
nearly every night, from five to six, during the
winter months. had to turn out from q warm
room to go through all weathers, lecture for an
hour in 8 theater heated by stove and lighted
by gas, and then return again to my snuggery
at home. When felt fresh cold beginning I
tried in vain to account for it, until accident
ally saw in Copland's Dictionary that the most
fertile cause of cold was coming from a moist,
cold air TO hot and dry room. This at once
explained to me the reason of my frequent Suf>
fering, for had invariably gone into my hot
room straight from the cold. Of course soon
changed my habit; dawdled in the hall while
taking on my great coat, perambulated the rooms
which had no fire in, went up and down stairs
and the like, ere 1 went into my study, whose
temperature was also reduced, Since then |
agree with friend, who says "that cold comes
from catching hot;" and I am disposed to think
there is a strong analogy between a chilblain
on q child's toes and q cold in person s nose
throat and lungs.-MediedE Mirror.
, 1867-07-12

GREELEY TO THE "LoYAL" LEAGUE GREETING
Horace Greeley has given mortal offence to
the 'Loyar' Leaguers of New York by going
bail for Jefferson Davis, and has accordingly
been placed "under the BAN" The League held
a meeting, and summoned Mr., Greeley before
them to arraigu him for his conduct A letter
was accordingly sent to him, citing him to ap-
pear before the august tribunal, in reply to
which he threw bombshell among them which
must have proved intensely disgusting. He de-
clined to appear in a communication of which
the following is portion:
GENTLEMEN Il shall not attend your meeting
this evening | have an engagement out of
town, and shall keep it. | do not recognize
you as capable of judging, or even fully appre-
bending me. You evidently regard me as a
weak, sentimentalist, misled by maudlin phil>
osophy. | arraign you as narrow minded block
heads, who would like to be useful to q great
and good cause, but don't know how, Your
attempt TO base a great enduring party on the
hate and wrath necessarily engendered by a
bloody civil war, is as though you should plant
colony on an iceberg which had somehow
drifted into tropical ocean. tell you here
that out of life earnestly devoted to the good
of human kind, your children will select nv
going to Richmond and signing that bail>bond
as the wisest act, and will feel that it did more
for freedom and humanity than all of you were
competent to do, though you had lived to the
age of Methusalah. ask nothing OF you, then,
but that you proceed to your end by direct,
frank, manly way. Don't slide off in mild re-
solution of censure, but move the expulsion
which you proposed, and which deserve if /
deserve any reproach whatever. All l care for
is, that You make this a square stand up fight,
and record your judgment by yeas and nays.
care not how many vote against me; for know
that they will repent it in dust and ashes before
before three years have passed. Understand,
once for all, that dare you and defy you, and
that propose to fight it out on the line that
have held since the day of Lees surrender.
, 1867-07-12

FAcrs.-The loveliest valley has a dirty
swamp; the noblest mountain, piercing blasts,
and the prettiest face some ugly feature The
fairest is most subject TO freckles and the hand
soonest girl is apt to be proud the most senti-
mental lady loves pork, and the gayest mother
lets her children go ragged The kindest wife
sometimes overlooks an absent shirt button, and
the most loving husband forgets to kiss his wife
every time he steps outside the gate, aud the
best dispostioned child in the world will get
angry and squall; and the smartest scholar will
miss lesson; the wittiest say something stupid,
and the wisest essayist writes some nonsense
the stars will fall and the moon sclipse-and the
men. won't be angels nor earth heaTen-there'
fore every subscriber ought to pay for his paper.
, 1867-07-12
NUMBER so.
CoMpLErEE AT LAsr-W,,., MA, Ia. -

CoMPLETEE AT LAsT.-Water was let in
to the Helena Ditch on last Friday after,
noon, aud at forty minutes past ten A. NJ.
Saturday morning, the miners in the lower
section of Dry Gulch we're gladdened by the
sight of that for which they have waited so
long and anxiously. Owing to the almost
iusurmouutable difficulties, the enterprise
will rank as one Of the greatest undertakings
in the Territory. The length of the ditch,
from where it taps the Ten Mile, until il
empties into Dry Gulch, is seventeen and a
bali miles; the tunnel LAG feet long, and is
cut through solid rock the hume which
crosses Grizzly Gulch is 266 feet in length,
6S feet high, raised on two sets of butts.
The deepest cutting was ten feet, at the point
where the ditch enters Dry Gulch, and the
capacity Of the ditch is 800 inches. Work
was commenced on it about one year ago,
and it is completed at total cost of s72, 900.
Since Messrs. Daher l. Atchison have
bought in, they have used their utmost ex,
ertioDs to complete it at an early day, hav>
ing had as high as $50 men at work, aud
seldom less than 100. There are probably
few undertakings of any description that will
more materially benefit our city than the
Helena Water Ditch. 1t opens up large
area Of mining ground which has hitherto
lasn dormant for want Of the necessary water
to work with-ground which it is estimated
will run S25 90 per day to the hand-aud
it will consequently give employment to
large number Of men. Immediately thou.
sands of dollars will be added weekly to our
circulating medium, from this source alone,
and there is fair prospect that as the sea-
son advances it will multiply in a correspon>
ding ratio. The proprietOrs are evincing q
very liberal spirit, and are desirous of seeing
all of the ground developed IN the vicinity
of the gulch. To those wishing to prospect
claims, in the fiat below the gulCh they give
water one week free, so that none who own
ground there need fail to thoroughly pros.
pect it.-Kontana Post.
, 1867-07-12

GIVE JOY TO A CHILD.-Blessed be the
hand THAI prepares pleasure for a child, for
there is no saying when and where it may
again bloom forth. Does not almost every.
body remember some kind-hearted man who
showed him kindness il the duleet DAYS of
his childhood2 2 The writer of this recollects
himself at this moment as bare>footed lad.
standing at the wooden fence of the Door
little garden in his native village, while with
longing eyes be gazed on the flowers which
were blooming there quietly in the brightness
of Sunday morning The possessor came
forth from his little cottage be was wood.
OuttOr by trnde, and spent the whole week
at work in the woods. He had COME into
the garden to gather flowers to stick into his
coat when he went to church. He saw the
boy, and breaking off the most beautiful of
his carnations-it was streaked with red and
white-he gave it to him. Neither the giver
nor the receiver spoke a word, and with
bounding steps the boy ran home. And now
here, at a vast distance from that home,
after SO many events of SO many years, the
feeling Of gratitude which agitated the breast
of that boy expresses itself on paper. The
carnation has long since withered, but now
it blooms afresh.-DOUgLas Jerrold.
, 1867-07-12

A sHoRN honeymoon is reported BY a
correspondent Of an Irish paper. A young
man.. sixteen years of age, named Sutten,
was sentenced to a months imprisonment
for deserving his wife.
, 1867-07-12

WOMEN USDREssED DCAPSA-PIE.-Wilke's Spirit
thus describes n soeue ia q PiooO pIa ying
at the most Legitimate" theatre in New York:
al had hoped that at least one theatre might be
left 10 US where ladies might 90 without seeing
more of the "naked truth" THAI pertains to the
regular drama; it was not supposed that the
ocular development of the human form divine
was necessary in the house claiming to be fore
most in all the country as the legitimate home
of dramatic art; yet the naked fever has broken
out even there. Without any sufficient reason,
there ten girls or women put upon the stage
Aas jockeys or riders of the supposed race horses.
The questionable taste Of having females to such
a position at all is magnfed into positive Of
feuse in the manner of their dressing. When
it comes to deliberate display of the form
from the hips to the knees, when there is not a
wrinkle in all that section of female anatomy,
not faithfully developed by the skin close silk
tights, it is time to protest. This is the case in
the Flying Scud. The ten women who come on
as jockeys not only dress SO to shock the
public propriety, but put an end to any doubt
one may have of their exact shapes by dancing
a sort of fhorse ,hornpipe, which gives play to the
human form divine, and brings out all the
points, fine and otherwise, of the fair jockeys.
The 'pg-skin fit will do well enough on boys,
but upon fully developed women it fits too much.
We have heard great deal about the indelcaey
of the Black Crook ballet, but l am unable to
recall anything in that much abused play equal
to the pig skin cluo' dress and dance"
, 1867-07-12

THE principals of the House of Roth
schild have had a meeting at Paris. 1t is
looked upon only as second to a political
congress of the great European Powers.
, 1867-07-12

TEE Count Of Flanders gave his wife
thirty thousand dollars worth Of diamonds
as wedding gift. He is what the ladies
call "a perfect gentleman"
, 1867-07-12

A HE'LL UPON EARTH-Theodore Tilton
has been looking into New York by gas
light, and dare not tell all that be saw. He
says in the Independent: "In company with
several well known public men, and under
guidance of the police, we made tour, on
Saturday night, through the nethermost
haunts of misery, vice, and crime in the
city Of New York. This is an exploration
which every man connected with public af-
fairs, either by civil or editorial duty, ought,
if possible, to make, at least once in his life.
Born in New York, and having always
either resided or labored within it, we never
saw or knew our own city until last Satur-
day night. Never until then had we any
adequate conception Of its poverty, or of its
squalidness, of its villainy, of its debauchery,
of its leprosy The sight can never be for
gotten The story, even if VIC had the heart
to tell il, must, for decency's sake, remain
untold. We can only say that none of the
familiar descriptions had adequately pre-
pared US for the actual scenes. We were
shocked, confounded, sickened And as
we now look back upon the awful revelations
of the one nights descent into hell, we can
hardly persuade ourselves that what we saw
was reality it seems hideous dream"
, 1867-07-12

THE victim of murder in Birmingham,
some time ago, was murdered for S4,oOO'
aud this sum an Accidental Insurance Com
papy has paid, considering murder, when
not the result of brawling aud fighting, an
accident.
, 1867-07-12
DIR a. j. HOGG,

OFFICE OPPOSITE THE ORIENTAL HOTEL.
OFFICE HOURS FROM O'CLOCK, A. NJ: TO
| J 7o'clOck, p. NJ. 4-u
, 1867-07-12
DIR A SHOTJE.

DHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCoUCIlER,
/ [late of Portland, Oregon,l has located himself
il Wala Wula. Consultations in French, German
aud English. Charges Moderate.
E&5- Office on Mnin street. opposite Coman'- Drug
Store residence Third street, second door from the
F,oine Housr 2ltf
, 1867-07-12

WooD.-Seyerai cords of wood will be taken
in payment for subscriptions, If delivered soon.
, 1867-07-12

AN exacting, head-strOug disposition is
curse to its possessor.
, 1867-07-12
DIR. ]. E. MooRES,
DIR. ]. w. HUNTER,

ILATE OF DALLEs CITY, REGoN.)
OFFERS his PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO
| J the citizens of Walla Walla I'D vicinity.
Office and Residence south end Of Third street,
,brro be may be found
nIl hours, both day and D;ght when not profess
oDallv engaged.
, 1867-07-12


THE TRIFLER. .-Triding is ranked among
the venial faults. But if time be one grand
talent given US in order to our securing eter-
nal lite /; if we triAe away that time so as 10
lose that eternal life, on which by not trifing
we might have laid hold, then will it answer
the end of sin. A life devoted to triAes,
not only takes away the inclination, but the
capacity for higher pursuits. The truths oil
Christianity have scarcely more influence on
a frivolous than on proaigate character
If the mind be SO absorbed, not merely with
what is vicious, but with what Is useless, as
70 be thoroughly disinclined to the actiVl1
ties of life Of piety, it matters little what
the cause is which so disinclines it. Ii these
babits can not be accused Of great moral
evil vet it argues low state of mind that
being who has an eternity at stake, can aban>
don itself to trivial pursuits. If the great
concern of life can not be secured without
babitual watchfulness, how is it to be secured
bv habitual careIessness. 1t will afford little
comfort to the triher when at the last reckN
oning he gives in his long negative catalogue,
that the more ostensible offender was worse
employed. The triAer will not be weighed
in the scale with the proAigate, but in the
balance of the sanctuary.
, 1867-07-12

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The Infamous Burbridge was present, aht
appeared very popular. The attendanc,
was quite snibil and the crowd uncomfort.
able. In hdnegro gallery vacant seat,
were plenty.
The following Is the ticket and platform
adopted by the Convention during the af.
ternoon session: For Governor, Sidney NJ
Barnes, of Pulaski for Lieutenant Cover
nor, X. Il. Baker, OF Campbell for Attor.
ney General. John Mason Brown. of Frank.
lin for Auditor, Silas n. Adams, of Casey
for Register OF Land 0alce, +. NJ Fidler. o
Mason; for Treasurer, M, J. Boark. of Mel.
enburg; for superintendent of Public In
struction, Rev. Daniel Stevenson.
The following resolutions were adopted
l: Resoigab BY the Union men of Ken.
tueky' In convention assembled, that we
stand with the Union men of the country
now as we have stood with them through
four years Of war for the preservation oi
the Government, and those principles oil
freedom and Justice on which 1t was
founded
g. ResolVed, That secession is treason, and
that ali who embarked in IL and enjoy inn
munitles from the penalties of treason by
reason of the f0rbearance of the Govern
ment and of the loyal people of the land.
g. Resolved That we declare our oppo-
sition 10 the policy and projects of Che
forts to render treason respectable at the
expense of the brave men who wore the
blue, and barred their bosoms to the battle
in defense of the Government in its dark
days OF trial, and pledge ourselves to front
and combat the spirit thus manifested by
the so-ealled Democracy in any shape It
may assume
4. RESOLVED, That we believe in the
rights of the loyal people OF the States,
through their representatives In both
houses Of Congress, to settle the terms on
which the disturbed relations of the rebel
liOus States and the Union may be restored
and that in common with the Union men
of the whole country we insist on such
terms as will make speedy restoration of
the States lately In rebellion to their for
mer position to the Union compatible with
the continued safety of the Republic, and
the protection of life, liberty and property
to all men.
8. ResolUed, That we pledge ourselves to
the support oft great Union party of the
United States, which has declared itself op-
posed Co the doctrines of the rebel DemOc-
racy, Rnd extend to all loyal men, of all
partslof the land, warm sympathy and
mostpOrdial cooperation, regardless of all
party names, IN their efforts to place the
Government upon an enduring basis. and
one which will secure Justice and protec-
ton to all its citizens, and that will in all
time to come battle the hate or open hostil-
tiles of its enemies,
G. ResOlped, That we are the firm friends
of system of general education among the
people Of Kentucky, and to that end will
contest with all our efforts to inflse energy
into the common school system, and TO
place it upon basis of permanent useful
ness,