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Notice TO Creditors.

NoTIcE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersiGn;
EMF, MEYER deceased, to the creditors Of, and to
ali persons having claims against the SAID deceased
10 exhibit them, with tho necessary vouchers, with
notiee N the aid Executors in the city OF Walla
WsiIs " r. John MILLER. Executor.
80 MARY MEYER,
Executrix of the Estate Of Emil Meyer, deed.
Dated March 18th, 1858. lfu
, 1868-03-27

- cstboIic Church 10 Portland, Oregon, to
cost $4,000.
, 1868-03-27
Il. Shell, NJ. ID.
DIR a. j. HOGG.
DIR. j. w. HUNTER,

(LATE OF DALLEs CITY, REoON)
OFFERS HIS PBOFESolONA SERVICES To
" the citizens of Walla Walla I'D vicinity.
Office and Residence south end Of Third street,
where be may be found at all hours, both day and
night, When not professionally engaged.
, 1868-03-27

A BosToNIAN's OPINION OF DICKENS
READING.-Speaking of the series OF read
ings Just closed in Bostor, a correspondent
says:
"They have been unqualifedly successful
as l have said, 10 pecuniary sense; but the
admirers of Dickens, who have listened to
him unbiased by overweening enthusiasm,
and determined to judge of his performance
according to the strict rules Of rhetoric and
eIocution. have been bound to confess that
he fails to realize the ideal they bad cherished.
| have not heard any one speak of these
readings without qualifying his praise. The
MISREPRESENTATION, as you know, have an
eve to advertising, and which are guides and
formers aesthetic taste-are, 50 far as the
Boston Press is concerned, not wholly relia-
BILE. They have plastered the novelist with
coat after coat of undiluted laudation; and
those who have heard for themselves read
these fulsome notices and laugh. But it is
the fashion 10 hear Dickens aud to rhapsodize
over his readings so we must do it, though
we swallow our words in private"
, 1868-03-27

SAVING FOR OLD AGE. No one denies that it
is wise to make a provision for old age, but we
are not all agreed as to the kind of provision it
is best to lay in. Certainly we shall want a lit
tie money, for destitute old man is indeed a
sorry sight. Yes, save money, by all means.
But an old man needs just that particular kind
of strength which young men most apt to
waste Many foolish young fellow will throw
away on holiday certain amount of nervous
energy which be will never feel the want Of till
be is seventy and then, how much he will want
it! 1t is curious, but true, that bottle Of cham
pagne at twenty may intensity the rheumatism of
the three score. 1t is fact, that everlasting
the eyes at fourteen may necessitate the aid Of
sPectaces at forty, instead of eighty. We advise
our young readers TO be saving of health Tor
their old age, for the maxim holds good with
regard to health as to mouey-waste not, want
not. 1t is hegreatest mistake to suppose that
any violation of toe laws of health can escape
its penalty. Nature forgives no sin, no error.
She lets off the offender for fifty years sometimes,
but she catches him atlast and iuficts the pun
ishment just when, jnst where, just how be feels
it most. Save up for old age, but save more
than money; save health, save honor, save
knowledge, save the recollection of good deeds
and innocent pleasures save pure thoughts,
save friends, save love. Save rich stores OF that
kind of wealth which time cannot diminish, nor
death take away.
, 1868-03-27

THE German newspapers chronicle the fact
that young man Of Dantzig, aged twenty-four,
who bad married widow Of forty-tvo, has just
discovered since his marriage, that his wife was
bis wet nurse. A French paper comments:
r'Fhus it isl One always returns 70 his first
love-"
, 1868-03-27
NUMBER 10.
German Ladies'.

A clergyman travelling in Germany, writes
concerning the ladies he has met, and so
much Of the social customs as he has seen
81 have noticed in German families. family
government is very strict; compared with
the theory and practice 10 America on this
subject. | may say extremely rigid. The
rules and regulations are few, but they are
enforced on all occasions, and under all
circumstances. Unqueslioning submission
to parental authority lies at the foundation
of this government. Children are taught 10
entertain the highest respect for superiors
and FIR age. 1t is beautiful to see the res
pectful manner in which they deport them
selves in the presence of their superiors and
older persons. They are also invaribly DO
lite to strangers.
A few weeks ago friend and myself made
an excursion on foot into country, and we're
surprised at the genuine politeness of the
poor peasants and their children. Every
peasant and child we met saluted us in the
kindest manner possible, and readily and
pleasantly answered all our questions Child
ren are early taught to be industrious and
selfreliant. They are not allowed to call
servants to do for them things which they
can easily do for themselves. Every boy
is trained for some business or profession,
and the girls are trained to make good houses
keepers and good wives. In the best families,
servants very seldom wait on the table
not even when guests are invited.
l took tea, not long since, at the house Of
Baroness, with large party, and not d
servant was to be seen. The Baroness made
tea after we were seated at table, with
convenient and elegant apparatus prepared
for the purpose, and two beautiful young
ladies, niece of the Baroness and a friend,
passed around the table and served the
guests.
"On one occasion, called on wealthy
family, and was received by the lady Of
the house, who told me that her Two daugh<
ters were in the kitchen cooking. They were
both to be married soon, and professional
cook had been employed to come three times
a week, to give them lessons in the art of
cooking, aud initiate them fully into all its
mysteries. In five minutes one of these
young ladies cane into the parlor TO see me,
neatly dressed, and conversed with me in
beautiful English.
" A thorough acquaintance with domestic
economy is considered an indispensable
qualification in young lady for the married
life In addition to all this, mothers teach
their daughters that one of their chief duties
after marriage is to strive to keep their hus-
band comfortable aud happy. When Ger.
man husband comes to his home, at the close
of the day of toll and anxiety, his wife re-
ceiyes him with a smile, arranges his arm
chair, brings him his study gown and slip
pers, places before him refreshments, gets
a cigar, and while he eats and smokes, cons
verses with him in the most entertaining
manner about the events of the day. What
will your lady friends say about this picture
of do nestle life in Germany ?"
, 1868-03-27
%alla &alla Statesman.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY EVENING, By
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
once Statesman Building, Third Street.
o. s. omoial Paper for the Territory.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

,rTERMs INVARIABLY IN ADvANCE.Ta
, 1868-03-27

MONEY.-PreciOus metals as money are
older than history. Two thousand years
before Christ, Abraham, the Chaldean shep-
herd, whose children have never lost his
faith, nor his thrift, though hundred and
fourteen generations, returned from 4 gypt,
every rich In cattle, in silver and gold"
Afterwards, says the biblical record, he
bought the cave of pelah-where his
bones were to rest beside those of Sarah, the
wife of his youth-for 'four hundred sbekels
of silver, current money with the merchant
The Catholic version has it common, current
money" The shekel was about sixty cents
of our gold. 1t was weighed, not counted,
for there were no mints in those day.
Herodotus asserts that coinage originated
with the Lydans. The worlds coins since,
have been like leaves of Autumn. Most
are extinct, but the British Museum preser-
yes more than oAe hundred and twenty
thousand varieties. The Paris collection is
still greater, and increased by two or three
thousand every year. Our country has no
large pnblc accumulation, but the cabinet
of the Philadelphia Miut contains many
worth studying. lis medallion memorials
of Washington number ZIG; but not one
representing him in battle. 1t embraces
many antique specimens. Here are self
same coins which pious ancients placed be,
tween the cold lips OF their dead to pay old
CharOn for ferriage over the Styx. Here
is that very image and subscription of Caesar
which the Judean carpenter pointed out to
the fishermen and tent makers following
him. Here are faces of rulers and captains
down to our own day from Alexander of
MacedOn, and the mightiest julius who
bestrode this narrow world like Colossus.
, 1868-03-27

A PERSON was Boosting that be was sprung
from high family in Ireladd. "Yes," said
bystauder. al have seen some of the same
family so high that their feet could not touch
the ground
, 1868-03-27

ONE CANDIDATE LEss.-"Yuba-Dam," a talen-
ted correspondent of the Louisville Courier de-
clsres not to be a candidate for President, and
givetn his reasons therefor, as follows | can
not be a candidate for the next Presidency
Domestic circumstances over which have no
control will prevent it. | make the announce,
ment with the full knowledge that George Fran>
els Train is in British Bastile, that "a. J.
has sore throat, and that my Withdrawal leaves
the Presidential track to be walked over by the
Hon. Dan Rice. | further admit that my total
nn6tness for the highest office in the gilt of the
managers Of conventions, draw me like magnet
toward the White House and while my quaif-
cations are not quite so garing, perhaps as those
that have distinguished the last half dozen in
cumbents, they are yet sufficiently obvious and
notorious to attract the attention aud command
the respect OF the people of this great and en-
ligbtened country people that have recently
so satisfactorily demonstrated-to the powers Of
Europe-their capacity for self government.
But notwithstanding all these positive reasons,
which to a superficial observer, point to me as
the coming man for assassination, | have some
negative objections yet stronger which, to save
writing letters in answer to invitations to polits
cal banquets in New York, will state at length
/. | was not born in Tennessee.
2. never expect TO be.
g. do not love the people.
4. Durn the people.
5. | do not believe in the ultimate sense of
justice of the people.
6. The people is many headed, conglomer.
ated jackass.
I. | never read the Constitution and never in
tend to carry it about in one hand
8. The people did not make me what am.
am not of them.
8. think the whisky guzzliug, dirty,faced
cusses ought to have King.
10. don know how many stars there are on
the American flag, and don't care a cuss
IL. When my term of Office should be termi-
nRted by pistol or poison, / don't want Mary
jane accused of stealing the slverware the
sheets, blankets, towels, table>cloths, drapers,
napkins and other table ware of the White House.
II. cannot bear the thought of having that
angelic being compelled to show her old clothes
for living.
l3. don't want to be pumped every quarter
by "Mack' of the Cincinnati Commercial.
IA. could not stand the Kentucky delegations
that do continually vibrate between Kentucky
and Washington for the purpose of procuring
and redressing of grievances, aud the appoint
ment of another man to Office. -YUBA Dam.
, 1868-03-27

A IL THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF DEN.
n TAI SERVICE executed in skillful man
ner and at reduced charges. All modern i'm :
pfevements adopted. Every operation guaran>
iced permanently useful.
B-COnsultation aud Advice Gratis.-es
~ GRlDGE, main ST., opp. water tank, WV.
, 1868-03-27

WHERE DOES THE DAY BEGIN.-As we travel
eastward the day begins earlier near the equa>
tor starlight appears an hour earlier for each
thousand miles going east. When it is sunrise
10 New York, the people of Europe have had sun
light for many hours, and the Californiaus are
still in their beds dreaming. Evidently the day
has first beginning and to the eastward But
how far and where? What are the people who
first see the light of Monday morning? 1t is the
sun which brings the day. Where does be first
bring Monday? five could travel with him we
might find out. Lei US suppose the case. We
will take an early start. At sunrise, on Sunday
morning, with the sun just at the point of peep
ing over the horizon behind us, we travel westr
ward. As we go the people give US a Sunday
greeting; we bring Sunday with us to Pittsburg,
St, Louis, Salt Lake, San Francisco. At San
Francisco our faithful chronometer informs us
that we have been on the tramp above Eve hours.
But we started on Sunday morning, and it is
Sunday morning still We go on, still on Sun
day morning Will this Sunday morning ever
end? The quiet Pacific knows very little of
Sunday or any other day, aud our question
scarcely receives echo for reply. When we
get to Yokohama in Japan, or Shanghai in Chi
ma, we search for some Yankee, wide awake in
the early morning, and We are told for the first
time, that Monday had come. Everywhere we
now bring Monday, and in twenty four hours,
by the cbronOmeler, after starting, we are in
New York again, and 6ud the merchants taking
down their shutters, and the Monday newspapers
telling US what bas happened during our absence.
, 1868-03-27

TALKING FINE.-Ludicrous blunders sometimes
occur in cases where ignorant persons attempt
the use of languarge about the meaning Of
which they know nothing.
Not long since, while travelling from Pitts
burgh to Cincinnati, two rather verdent speci-
mems of the female sex came on board the boat
at one of the landings, who for the sake of dis'
tinction we will call Mary aud Jane.
Now, Mary had her eye-teeth cut, or in other
words was acquainted with the rules and reguN
lations which govern genteel society Jane, the
Younger had never mixed in society to any ex-
tent, Her language was such as she heard anon g
her rustic acquaintances. Mary was aware OF
This fact and cautioned her to observe how she
(Maryl acted, and govern herself accordingly; g: ::
Shortly after, while seated at the dinner tsoIe
the waiter asked Mary what part OF ine low
she would have? She informed him IN very PV. ~.
lite manner that il vas "perfectly immateriAl.
he accordingly gave her piece, and .Ssn en- al
believe will take piece of the i'H"'dts''0' ''O
, 1868-03-27

HEALTHFULNEss OF APPLEs.-There is
scarcely an article of vegetable food more
widely useful or more universally liked than
the apple. Why every farmer has not an
orchard, where the trees will grow at all, is
one of the mysteries Let every housekeep>
er lay in good supply of apples, and it
will be the most economical investment in
in the whole range of culinaries. A raw
mellow apple is digesled in an hour and "a
half, while boiled cabbsges require FIVE
hours. The most healthful dessert that can
be placed on the table is a baked apple. If
eaten frequently at breakfast, with bread
and butter, without meat or flesh of any
kind, it has an admirable effect on the gem
eral system, often removing constipation,
correcting acidities; and cooling of febrile
conditions more effectualy than the most
approved medicines. If families could be
induced to substitute apples-sound and
ripe-for pies, cakes, and sweetmeats, with
which their children are too frequently stuff
fed, there would be diminution in the sum
total of doctors bills in a single year suf-
ficient to lay in a stock of this delicious fruit
for the whole seasons use Christian Ad-
U0cdte.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
The surk and the Greek.

The authors. G. ". Benjamin of the
pleasant volume with the above title, Just
ISSUED By Hurd and Houghton, modestly
speaks OF himself in his preface un-
tried writer" He, however, can be hardly
properly called :. untried, " who has written
for the North AH,ericaa ReUie,c, Harper'S
Nonthly and the Rirerside Nagaei inc, in which
considerable portions of this book at first
appeared and one chapter Of the work ap-
peared as a letter in the Springfield Repu5H-
ran The Turk and the Greek are little
enough known except TO travellers, and what
ever makes better acquainted with them
ought To be a welcome contribution to litera-
ture. The recent struggle in Crete, in which
the Greeks of that island are endeavoring,
a yet unsuccessfully. to throw off the Turk
lsh yoke. has awakened the sympathy of
Christendon. and called unusual attention to
both Turkey and Greece and anything which
pertains = those countries will now meet a
want very generally felt This volume is
gracefully written. and, without being wea-
rIsome IN its details or statistics, gives the
reader interesting pictures Of the lands and
the peoples of which 1t treats
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

in his various columns, about thirty thou
sand men engaged I; of these, he lost prob
ably three thousand, in killed and wounded.
He, however, was met by an army, instead
of a garrison. Pemberton, according to
his own statement, put eighteen thousand
five hundred men in the trenches. 1t was
therefore, no reproach to the gallantry or
soldiership of the army of the Tennessee
that it was unable to carry works of the
strength of those which repelled, manned
by troops of the same race as themselves
and III numbers SO nearly equal to their
own. Neither can the generalship which
directed this assault be fairly censured.
The only possible chance of breaking
i'll massing the troops, so that the weight
of the columns should be absolutely ire
sstible. But the broken, tangled ground,
where often company could not advance
by flank, made massing impossible and
this could not be known In advance. The
rebels, too, had not shown in the week pre-
ceding the assault any of the dotsrnliIIa-
ton which they displayed behind their
earthsrn walle at Viohsburg; the works at
the Big Black river also were impregna-
bic, if they mad not been well defended
and Grant could not know, beforehand.
that Pemberton's men had recovered their
former meitle, any more than he could as
certain, without trial, how inaccessible
were the activities and how prodigions the
difficulties which protected the relnvigora-
ted soldiers. But Badajos was thrice be-
sieged and oftener assaulted ere 1t fell
and the stories of Saguntum and Saragossa
prove that Nicksburg was not the only cit
idel which long resisted gallant and de-
termined armies.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

around the great cataract They are thus
described by correspondent:
buffalo Greek was so low that all the
vessels IN 1T were grounded, and Niagara
Falls was rivulet compared with its ma
tive grandeur. The bed of the American
branch was so denuded that you could
travel in its rocky bed without wetting your
feet, and mysteries that were never before
revealed came to light on that day Rocks
that heretofore were invisible appeared in
their full-grown deformity upon the sur
face, and great was the CONSERVATION
among the fnny tribes. The Three Sisters
were accessible to foot-passengers, and
many traversed where human foot had
never trod, with perfect impunity and dry
feet. Below the Falls was the wonder of
wonders. The water was full twenty feet
lower than usual, and the oldest inhabit-
ants gazed in wonder at the grand trans
formation. Near Suspension bridge the
celebrated rock at Winners mill, upon
which drowning man caught and was
rescued several years ago, which barely
projects its head above the water, was laid
bare twenty feet above the surface"
With the subsistence Of the gale, the
waters came back, and Niagara was her
self again
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
Death Indoors.

Multitudes of persons have great hor-
ror of going out of doors for fear of taking
cold if it is little damp, or a little
windy, or little cold, they wait, and wait,
and wait; meanwhile, weeks and even
months pass away, and they never, during
that whole time, breathe a single breath of
pure air. The result is, they become so
enfeebled that their constitutions have no
power of resistance the least thing in the
world gives them cold; !; even going from
one room to another, and before they know
it they have a cold all the time, and this
is nothing more or less than consumption !;
whereas, if an opposite practice had been
followed of going out for an hour or two
every day, regardless of the weather, so it
is not actually falling rain, very differ
ent result would have taken place. The
truth is, the more person is out of doors,
the less easily does he take cold. 1t is a
widely known fact that persons who camp
out every night, or sleep under tree for
weeks together, seldom take cold at all.
The truth is, many of our ailments, and
those of a most fatal form, are taken in the
house, and not out of doors; taken by re-
moving parts of clothing too soon after
coming into the house or lying down on a
he'd or sofa when in tired or exhausted
condition from having engaged too vigor.
ously in domestic employment. Many .
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
iile Diary of Il Milliner.

This volume written by - Belle Otis -
and published by Messrs. Hurd Il Houghton,
teaches a profitable lesson, if its readers will
only be 50 cunsiderate as to make the appll-
cation 70 themselves The tricks of the
trade as well as the practices of customers,
are portrayed with equal plainness and i'm
partialitv. and the transformation of an hon
sst milliner into one sharp enough to deal
with sharp patrons after their own fashion,
IS. perhaps in part unconsciously and yet
none the less clearly, set forth. Milliners are
important part of the community,-as
without them how would the ladies keep up
with the fashions and why should mt they
have a literature of their own? After Bar
mum made his first fortune humbugging the
public, he added no small sum to it by making
book telling the public how they had been
hocus- pocusscd by him, and the milliners
have as good right to publish their expert
ences. The public have long been familiar
with the milliner's bills, that being hitherto
the principal literature of that very useful as
well as ornamental class of our female fellow
citizens but Belle Otis has taken somewhat
higher. though we trust for her no less prof
liable, style of writing She employs faclie
pen, and has produceda very readable work
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
A Brighter Day.
From the Spanish.
Br WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.


Harness the impatient years,
Oh Time and yoke them to the imperial car;
For, through mist of tears,
The brighter day appears,
Whose early bushes tinge the hills afar-
A brighter day for thee,
oh realm, whose glorious fields spread between
The dark-blue Midland Sea
And that immensity
of Western Waters which once hailed thee Queen
The fiery coursers fling
Their necks aloft and snuff the morning wind
Till the fleet moments bring
The expected sign to spring
Along their path and leave these glooms behind
Yoke them, and yield the reins
To Spain. and lead her to the LOFTY seat;
But, ere she mount the chains,
Whose cruel strength constrains
Her limbs must fall in fragments at her feet.
A tyrant brood have wound
About her helpless limbs, the steely braid.
And toward gulf profound
They drag her gagged and bound,
Down among dead mems bones and frost and shade
oh, Spain thou vert, of yore,
The wonder of the realms; in prOuder years
Thy naughty forehead wore,
What il shall wear no more,
The diadem of both the henis spheres.
To thee the ancient Deep
Revealed his pleasant undiscovered lands
From mines where jewels sleep,
TILED plain and vine-clad steep,
Earth's richest spoil was offered to thy hands.
Yet thou, when land and
Sent thee their tribute with each rolling wave
And kingdoms crouched to thee
Vert false to Liberty,
And therefore art thou now a shackIed slave
wilt thou not, vet again.
Put forth the sleeping strength that in thee le-.
And snap the shameful chain,
And force the tyrant train
To flee before the anger in thine eyes:
Then shall tine harnessed years
Sweep onward with thee to that glorious height
Which even appears
Bright through this mist of tears,
The dwelling place of Liberty and Light.